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List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2015
& New Appointments

LIST OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
(as on 05.03.2015)

 

Shri Narendra Modi - Prime Minister and also in-charge of: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; and
All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

1. Shri Raj Nath Singh Minister of Home Affairs.


2. Smt. Sushma Swaraj Minister of External Affairs; and Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs.

3. Shri Arun Jaitley Minister of Finance; Minister of Corporate Affairs; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting.

4. Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu Minister of Urban Development; Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation; and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.

5. Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Shipping.

6. Shri Manohar Parrikar Minister of Defence.

7. Shri Suresh Prabhu Minister of Railways.

8. Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda Minister of Law and Justice.

9. Sushri Uma Bharati Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

10. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla Minister of Minority Affairs.

11. Shri Ramvilas Paswan Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

12. Shri Kalraj Mishra Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

13. Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Minister of Women and Child Development.

14. Shri Ananthkumar Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

15. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Minister of Communications and Information Technology.

16. Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda Minister of Health and Family Welfare.

17. Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati Minister of Civil Aviation.

18. Shri Anant Geete Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.

19. Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal Minister of Food Processing Industries.

20. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar Minister of Mines; and Minister of Steel.

21. Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh Minister of Rural Development; Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation.

22. Shri Jual Oram Minister of Tribal Affairs.

23. Shri Radha Mohan Singh Minister of Agriculture.

24. Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.

25. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani Minister of Human Resource Development.

26. Dr. Harsh Vardhan Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences.

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

1. General (Retd.) V.K. Singh Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs.

2. Rao Inderjit Singh Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.

3. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Textiles.

4. Shri Bandaru Dattatreya Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

5. Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.

6. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH); and Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

7. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

8. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

9. Shri Prakash Javadekar Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

10. Shri Piyush Goyal Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Power;
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Coal; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

11. Dr. Jitendra Singh Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; 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.

12. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

13. Dr. Mahesh Sharma Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture;
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

MINISTERS OF STATE

1. Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.

2. Shri Ram Kripal Yadav Minister of State in the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.

3. Shri Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

4. Shri Sanwar Lal Jat Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

5. Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture.

6. Shri Giriraj Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

7. Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

8. Shri G.M. Siddeshwara Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.

9. Shri Manoj Sinha Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways.

10. Shri Nihalchand Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.

11. Shri Upendra Kushwaha Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

12. Shri Radhakrishnan P. Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping.

13. Shri Kiren Rijiju Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

14. Shri Krishan Pal Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

15. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture.

16. Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

17. Shri Vishnu Deo Sai Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel.

18. Shri Sudarshan Bhagat Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development.

19. Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

20. Shri Y.S. Chowdary Minister of State in the Ministry of Science and Technology; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

21. Shri Jayant Sinha Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance.

22. Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

23. Shri Babul Supriyo Minister of State in the Ministry of Urban Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.

24. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.

25. Shri Vijay Sampla Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

New Appointments

National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog) : Narendra Modi, Chairman

Lok Sabha, Speaker : Mrs. Sumitra Mahajan

Lok Sabha, Secretary-General : Anoop Mishra

Rajya Sabha, Chairman : Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Rajya Sabha, Deputy Chairman : P. J. Kurien

Rajya Sabha, Leader of House : Arun Jaitley

Rajya Sabha, Leader of Opposition : Ghulam Nabi Azad

Rajya Sabha, Secretary-General : Shumsher K. Sheriff

National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog) Vice-Chairman : Arvind Panagariya.

CEO of Niti Aayog: Ms. Sindhushree Khullar (IAS)

Chief Election Commissioner : Syed Nasim Zaidi

Election Commissioner : Achal Kumar Jyoti

Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) : K. V. Chowdary

Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) : Vijai Sharma

Comptroller and Auditor-General of India : Shashi Kant Sharma

National Human Right Commission (NHRC) Chairperson (Acting) : Justice Cyriac Joseph

Cabinet Secretary : Pradeep Kumar Sinha

Principal Secretary to Prime Minister : Nripendra Misra

Foreign Secretary of India: S Jaishankar

National Commission for Backward Classes : Justice Vangala Eswaraiah, Chairman

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) : Nutan Guha Biswas , Chairperson

National Commission for Scheduled Castes : Dr. P. L. Punia, Chairman

National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) : Dr.Rameshwar Oraon, Chairman

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) : Deepak Gupta, Chairman

National Commission on Farmers (NCF) : Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, Chairman

National Security Adviser and Special Adviser to PM (Internal Security) : Ajit Kumar Doval

National Investigation Agency (NIA) : Sharad Kumar, Director-General

Railway Board : A. K. Mital, Chairman

Intelligence Bureau (IB) : Dineshwar Sharma, Director

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) : Anil Kumar Sinha, Director

Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) : Rajinder Khanna, Director

National Security Guard (NSG) : RC Tayal,, Director-General

Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) : Prakash Mishra, Director-General

Border Security Force (BSF) : Devendra Kumar Pathak, Director-General

Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) : Surender Singh, Director-General

Railway Protection Force. (RPF) : P. K. Mehta, Director-General

Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) : Krishna Chaudhary, Director-General

Sashastra Seema Bal : B. D. Sharma, Director-General

Indian Coast Guard : Vice-Admiral Anurag G. Thapliyal, Director-General

Defence Intelligence Agency : Lt. Gen. Avtar Singh, Director-General

University Grants Commission (UGC) : Prof. Ved Prakash, Chairman

Defence Research and Development Organisation. (DRDO) : Dr. S. Christopher, Director-General

Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government : Dr. R. Chidambaram

Chairman of Space Commission and ISRO : A. S. Kiran Kumar

Chief of ISRO’s Space Application Centre: Tapan Misra

Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre: K.Sivan

Director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre: P.Kunhikrishnan

Director of ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangaluru: M.Annadurai

Director of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, ISRO: S Somanath

Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Dept. of Atomic Energy : Ratan Kumar Sinha, Chairman

National Commission for Minorities : Naseem Ahmad, Chairperson

Staff Selection Commission (SSC) : Amitava Bhattacharya, Chairman

Indian Council of Medical Research : Dr. Vishwa Mohan Katoch, Director-General

India and Census Commissioner : C. Chandramouli, Registrar-General

Law Commission : Justice D. K. Jain, Chairman

Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) : Dr. B. N. Suresh, President

National Forest Commission : Justice (Retd.) B. N. Kirpal, Chairman

National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) : T. Nanda Kumar, Chairperson

Border Roads Organisation : Lt. General AT Parnaik, Director-General

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) : Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor

Press Council of India : Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, Chairman

Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) : Ravindra Pisharody, Chairman

Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) : R. K. Tewari, Chairman

Central Board of Excise and Customs : Mrs. J.M. Shanti Sundharam, Chairman

Competition Commission of India : Ashok Chawla

Central Administrative Tribunal : Justice Syed Rafat Alam, Chairman

National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) : R.S.T. Sai, CMD

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) : Dinesh K. Sarraf, CMD

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) : Dr. Satbir Bedi, Chairperson

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) : U. K. Sinha, Chairman

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) : Dr. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Chairman

Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) : M. S. Raghavan, Chairman

India's Permanent Representative to UN : Asoke Kumar Mukerji

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) : S. K. Roy, Chairman

Central Water Commission : Ashwin Pandya, Chairman

National Commission for Women : Ms. Lalitha Kumarmangalam, Chairperson

14th Finance Commission : Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Chairman

Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR): MO Garg

National Statistical Commission : Dr. Pronob Sen, Chairman

Indian Statistical Institute (ISI): Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) : Pahlaj Nihalani, Chairperson

Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) : Dr. Rakesh Tewari, Director-General

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) : Dr. Jyotsna Suri, President

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) : Dr. Rahul Khullar, Chairman

Enforcement Directorate : Dr. Rajan Katoch, Director

Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) : R. V. Verma, Chairman

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre : Dr. Sekhar Basu, Director

Indian Olympic Association : N. Ramachandran, President

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) : Prof. B.K.Tripathi, Acting Director

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) : Ajay S. Shriram, President

Prasar Bharti Board : Dr. A. Surya Prakash, Chairman

Investment Commission : Ratan Tata, Chairman

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) : Jagmohan Dalmiya, President

Indian Premier League (IPL): Rajiv shukla

International Cricket Council (ICC): N. Srinivasan

NASSCOM : R. Chandrasekaran, Chairman

National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) : Ramesh Sippy, Chairman

Children's Film Society : Mukesh Khanna, Chairman

United News of India : Ravindra Kumar, Chairman

Press Trust of India (PTI) : Mahendra Mohan Gupta, Chairman

Indian Newspaper Society (INS) : Kiran B. Vadodaria, President

The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) : Rana Kapoor, President

Head of Amnesty International India: Aakar Patel

Director of Natinl Crime Records Bureau (NCRB): Archana Ramasundaram

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT): CSIR - Dr.Srivari Chandrasekhar

Chancellor of Nalanda University: George Yeo

Chairman of National Book Trust: Baldev Sharma

Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi: Shekhar Sen

CMD of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI): Kshatrapati Shivaji

Director General of Doordarshan News: Veena Jain

Chairman of National Safety Council (NSC): K.Satish Reddy

Controller General of Accounts: MJ Joseph

CEO of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC): Arun Kumar Jha

Director General of Doordarshan News: Veena Jain

Head of New Development Bank of BRICS nations: K.V Kamath

Cyber Security Chief: Gulshan Rai

Director General of Bureau of Indian Standards: G Gurucharan