Cabinet Reshuffle: 43 leaders take oath as ministers

 •The Union Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expanded its council of ministers. The names in the cabinet reshuffle include several new entrants as well as existing ministers who will be reassigned. The swearing-in ceremony of 43 Ministers was held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on July 7, 2021. In total, 15 Ministers were inducted into the Union Cabinet and 28 Ministers were inducted as Ministers of State. This is the first cabinet reshuffle since the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) retained power in 2019.

•The Union Cabinet can have 81 members, as per the rule. There were 53 ministers in PM Modi’s cabinet but a series of them, including Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, resigned hours before the names were announced.

•PM Modi will continue to head the following – Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; All important policy issues; and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

Here is the list of New Cabinet ministers:

SI. No	Minister	Ministry
1	Rajnath Singh	Minister of Defence
2	Amit Shah	Minister of Home Affairs; and Minister of Cooperation
3	Mansukh Mandaviya	Minister of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
4	Nitin Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Highways
5	Nirmala Sitharaman	Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs
6	Narendra Singh Tomar	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
7	Dr S. Jaishankar	Minister of External Affairs
8	Arjun Munda	Minister of Tribal Affairs
9	Smriti Irani	Minister of Women and Child Development
10	Piyush Goyal	Minister of Commerce and Industry; Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of Textiles
11	Dharmendra Pradhan	Minister of Education; and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
12	Pralhad Joshi	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines
13	Narayan Rane	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
14	Sarbananda Sonowal	Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; and Minister of AYUSH
15	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Minister of Minority Affairs
16	Dr. Virendra Kumar	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
17	Giriraj Singh	Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj
18	Jyotiraditya M. Scindia	Minister of Civil Aviation
19	Ashwini Vaishnaw	Minister of Railways; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
20	Ramchandra Prasad Singh	Minister of Steel
21	Pashu Pati Kumar Paras	Pashu Pati Kumar Paras
22	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Minister of Jal Shakti
23	Kiren Rijiju	Minister of Law and Justice
24	Ra Kumar Singh	Minister of Power; and Minister of New and Renewable Energy
25	Hardeep Singh Puri	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
26	Bhupender Yadav	Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Labour and Employment
27	Mahendra Nath Pandey	Minister of Heavy Industries
28	Parshottam Rupala	Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
29	G. Kishan Reddy	Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism; and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region
30	Anurag Singh Thakur	Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

SI. No	Minister	Ministry
1	Rao Inderjit Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
2	Dr Jitendra Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Science and Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences; Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State in the Department of Space

Ministers of State

SI. No	Minister	Ministry
1	Shripad Yesso Naik	Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
2	Faggansingh Kulaste	Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development
3	Prahalad Singh Patel	Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries
4	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
5	Arjun Ram Meghwal	Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
6	General (Retd.) V. K. Singh	Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation
7	Krishan Pal	Minister of State in the Ministry of Power; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries
8	Danve Raosaheb Dadarao	Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways; Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines
9	Ramdas Athawale	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
10	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development
11	Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
12	Nityanand Rai	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
13	Pankaj Chaowdhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
14	Anupriya Singh Patel	Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
15	Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel	Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice
16	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
17	Shobha Karandlaje	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
18	Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma	Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
19	Darshana Vikram Jardosh	Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways
20	V. Muraleedharan	Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
21	Meenakashi Lekhi	Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
22	Som Parkash	Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
23	Renuka Singh Saruta	Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs
24	Rameswar Teli	Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment
25	Kailash Choudhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
26	Annpurna Devi	Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
27	A. Narayanaswamy	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
28	Kaushal Kishore	Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
29	Ajay Bhatt	Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
30	B. L. Verma	Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation
31	Ajay Kumar	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
32	Devusinh Chauhan	Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications
33	Bhagwanth Khuba	Minister of State in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
34	Kapil Moreshwar Patil	Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj
35	Pratima Bhoumik	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
36	Dr. Subhas Sarkar	Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
37	Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad	Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
38	Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh	Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
39	Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar	Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
40	Bishweswar Tudu	Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti
41	Shantanu Thakur	Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
42	Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai	Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of AYUSH
43	John Barla	Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs
44	Dr. L. Murugan	Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
45	Nisith Pramanik	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports