Union Cabinet Ministers 2024

Many of these are new faces in the Central Government but are hard fought political veterans of their states.

CABINET MINISTERS 2024 WITH PORTFOLIOS

Top 6 Portfolios

Shri Narendra Modi - Prime Minister

He shall be in charge of the following ministries -

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

Shri Raj Nath Singh is the Minister of Defence

Shri Amit Shah is the Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Cooperation.

Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari is the Minister of Road Transport and Highways

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman is the Minister of Finance, and Minister of Corporate Affairs

Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is the Minister of External Affairs

The Top 6 portfolios usually dubbed by the media as the powerhouse portfolios and the cabinet ministers were retained by the Modi 3.0 government to continue the development plans and schemes started in the last term.

Major Cabinet Ministers and Portfolios

Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda is the Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan is the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Minister of Rural Development.

Shri Manohar Lal is the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs and Minister of Power.

Shri H. D. Kumaraswamy is the Minister of Heavy lndustries and Steel.

Shri Piyush Goyal is the Minister of Commerce and lndustry

Shri Dharmendra Pradhan is the Minister of Education

Shri Jitan Ram Manjhi is the Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh is the Minister of Panchayati Raj and Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

Shri Sarbananda Sonowal is the Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways

Dr. Virendra Kumar is the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Shri Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu is the Minister of Civil Aviation.

Shri Pralhad Joshi is the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and New and Renewable Energy

Shri Jual Oram is the Minister of Tribal Affairs

Shri Giriraj Singh is the Minister of Textiles.

Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw is the Minister of Railways; Minister of lnformation and Broadcasting and Minister of Electronics and lnformation Technology.

Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia is the Minister of Communications and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region

Shri Bhupender Yadav is the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is the Minister of Culture; and Minister of Tourism

Smt. Annpurna Devi is the Minister of Women and Child Development

Shri Kiren Rijiju is the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Minority Affairs.

Shri Hardeep Singh Puri is the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas

Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya is the Minister of Labour and Employment; and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports.

Shri G. Kishan Reddy is the Minister of Coal and Minister of Mines.

Shri Chirag Paswan is the Minister of Food Processing lndustries

Shri C R Patil is the Minister of Jal Shakti.

Cabinet Ministers 2024 - Independent Charge

Rao lnderjit Singh is the Minister of State (lndependent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme lmplementation, of the Ministry of Planning and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture.

Dr. Jitendra Singh is the Minister of State (lndependent Charge) of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, the Department of Atomic Energy; and the Department of Space

Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal is the Minister of State (lndependent Charge) of the Ministry of Law and Justice and the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

Shri Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao is the Minister of State (lndependent Charge) of the Ministry ofAyush; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Shri Jayant Chaudhary is the Minister of State (lndependent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, the Ministry of Education.

What is a Minister of State with Independent Charge?

Ministers of State with Independent Charge (MoS Independent Charge) are junior ministers in India's central government who head their own ministries without direct oversight from a Cabinet Minister.

MINISTERS OF STATE

These ministers act as junior ministers of state assisting with the main portfolios alongside the Cabinet Ministers.

Shri Jitin Prasada is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and lndustry; Electronics and Information Technology.

Shri Shripad Yesso Naik is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Power and of New and Renewable Energy.

Shri Pankaj Chaudhary is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance

Shri Krishan Pal is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation.

Shri Ramdas Athawale is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Shri Ram Nath Thakur is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

Shri Nityanand Rai is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs

Smt. Anupriya Patel is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; and the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

Shri V. Somanna is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Ministry of Railways

Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development and the Ministry of Communications.

Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; and the Ministry of Panchayati Raj

Sushri Sobha Karandlaje is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

Shri Kirtivardhan Singh is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and the Ministry of External Affairs

Shri B. L. Verma is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Shri Shantanu Thakur is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.

Shri Suresh Gopi is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Ministry of Tourism.

Dr. L. Murugan is the Minister of State in the Ministry of lnformation and Broadcasting; and the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

Shri Ajay Tamta is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

Shri Bandi Sanjay Kumar is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs

Shri Kamlesh Paswan is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development

Shri Bhagirath Choudhary is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Shri Satish Chandra Dubey is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal and the Ministry of Mines.

Shri Sanjay Seth is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence

Shri Ravneet Singh is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing lndustries; and the Ministry of Railways

Shri Durgadas Uikey is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

Smt. Raksha Nikhil Khadse is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

Shri Sukanta Majumdar is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region.

Smt. Savitri Thakur is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development

Shri Tokhan Sahu is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

Shri Raj Bhushan Choudhary is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti.

Shri Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy lndustries and the Ministry of Steel

Shri Harsh Malhotra is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

Smt. Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

Shri Murlidhar Mohol is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation and Civil Aviation.

Shri George Kurian is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs and the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

Shri Pabitra Margherita is the Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Textiles

To conclude

So folks, these are the major updates regarding the new Union Cabinet Ministers 2024 List. Watch this space for mode updates.