Cabinet Minister:
A cabinet minister is a member of the executive branch of the government. The cabinet consists of many senior ministers. These honorable Ministers hold important portfolios such as home affairs, defence , education etc., The cabinet consists of most experienced Ministers. On important matters Prime Minister seeks their advice. The decisions taken by the cabinet are binding to all Ministers. The cabinet meets frequently to formulate the policies and decide on certain matters on national importance. The size of the cabinet is 15-20 Ministers.
How many types of ministers are there in Cabinet
There are five categories of Council of Ministers.
- Prime Minister: Prime Minister is the leader of executive of the Government of India.
- Deputy Prime Minister: He is the senior most Cabinet Minister. Presides as Prime Minister in his absence.
- Cabinet Minister: He leads a Ministry. A member of the Cabinet.
- Minister of State (Independent charge): He is a Junior Minister. He will not report to a Cabinet Minister.
- Minister of State (MoS): Deputy Minister reporting to a Cabinet Minister with responsibility in that Ministry.
Indian Cabinet Ministry – 2022
| Name | Shri Narendra Modi |
| Name of the Ministry | Prime Minister 1. Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions 2. Department of Space 3. Department of Atomic Energy 4. All important policy issues And all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister |
Cabinet Ministers
| Name | Shri Amit Shah |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Home Affairs Ministry of Cooperation |
Shri Amit shah is the first Minister of Cooperation of India. He served the BJP From 2014-2020. Shah was the first elected M.L.A in Gujarat.
| Name | Shri Rajnath Singh |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Defence |
Shri Rajnath Singh is currently the Deputy Leader of the House of LokSabha. He is the former president of BJP. He has previously served as the Chief Minister of Uttarpradesh and as Cabinet Minister in the Vajpayee Government.
| Name | Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Road Transport and Highways |
Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari is an Indian Politician From Maharashtra. He is the longest serving Minister for Road Transport and Highways currently running his tenure for over 8 Years. From 2009-2013 he served as the President of BJP.
| Name | Shri Narayan Tatu Rane |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises |
Shri Narayan Tatu Rane is the Indian Politician and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He has previously held Cabinet Ministry Positions for Industry, Port, Employment and Self-employment; Revenue; and Industry in the Government of Maharashtra. He currently serves as Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Second Modi Ministry.
| Name | Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman |
| Name of the Ministry | 1. Ministry of Finance 2. Ministry of Corporate Affairs |
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian economist and Politician. She is serving as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of India since 2019. She is a Member of Rajyasabha, Upper house of the Indian Parliament since 2014. Sitharaman formerly served as the Defence Minister of India. She is India’s second female Defence Minister. And also the second female Finance Minister after Indira Gandhi and first full time Female Finance Minister.
| Name | Shri Narendra Singh Tomar |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare |
Narendra Singh Tomar is the Incumbent Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. He has been Minister of different periods of the First and second Modi Ministry. He worked as Minister of Rural Development, Minister of Panchayati Raj, Minister of Mines and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.
| Name | Shri Sarbanada Sonowal |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Ports, Shipping and WaterwaysMinistry of AYUSH |
Sarbananda Sonowal is an Indian Politician from Assam. He is the Current Cabinet Minister of Ports, Shipping and waterways and also Cabinet Minister of Ayush in the Government of India. He is a former Chief Ministre of Assam. He served as the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Government of India, from 2014-2016. He is the first Chief Minister of Assam From Bharatiya Janata Party.
| Name | Dr. Virendra Kumar |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment |
Virendra Kumar Khatik is an indian politician serving as the Minister of social Justice and Empowerment. He is a Member of Parliament in the 17th Loksabha from Tikamagarh. He is an MP since 1996 and was a member in the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Lok Sabha.
He was also the chairperson of the Standing Committee on Labour and a Member of the General Purpose Committee. He was chosen as the Pro-tem speaker of the 17th Loksabha in June 2019.
| Name | Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of External Affairs |
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (born 9 January 1955) is an Indian diplomat who is serving as the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India. since 30 May 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019, representing Gujarat. He has previously served as the Foreign Secretary from January 2015 to January 2018.
He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1977 and during his diplomatic career spanning over 38 years, he served in different capacities in India and abroad including as a High Comissioner to Singapore (2007–09) and as Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2001–04), China (2009–2013) and USA (2014–2015). Jaishankar played a key role in negotiating the Indo-US Civilian nuclear agreement.
| Name | Shri Ashwini Vaishnav |
| Name of the Ministry | 1. Ministry of Railways 2. Ministry of Communications 3. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology |
Ashwini Vaishnaw (born 18 July 1970) is an Indian politician and former IAS Officer currently serving as the Minister of RailwaysCommunications and Electronics & Information Technlogy, since 8 July 2021. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party In June 2019, he became a member of the Parliament of India representing Odisha State in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house. On 7 July 2021, he was appointed as a Cabinet Minister and was given the charge of Railways and Information Technology ministries
| Name | Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Women and Child Development |
Smriti Zubin Irani is an Indian politician and a former television actress and producer. She is the Minister of Women and Child Development in the Union Cabinet of India since May 2019. A prominent leader within the Bharatiya Janata Party, she is a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha representing Amethi.
In the 2019 Indian General Election, she defeated Rahul Gandhi – the country’s principal opposition leader and the president of Indian National Congress – to win the Amethi seat. Previously the Amethi constituency had been represented by the members of the Gandhi family for the last four decades. Irani was the youngest minister in the 2019 Council of Ministers, when she was sworn in as a Cabinet Minister in May 2019 at the age of 43.
| Name | Shri Ramchandra Prasad |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Steel |
Ram Chandra Prasad Singh is an Indian politician and former national president of Janata Dal (United). He is also a Member of Parliament, Rajyasabha from Bihar from 2010 to 2022. He was a UP cadre IAS Officer before joining politics. He was also principal secretary of Nitish Kumar.He became Minister of Steel in Second Modi Ministry when cabinet overhaul happened.
| Name | Mansukh Mandaviya |
| Name of the Ministry | 1. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare 2. Ministry of Chemical Fertilizers |
Mansukh Mandaviya took charge as the Minister of Health and Family Welfare in the Government of India on July 7, 2021, with an additional charge of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers. Mandaviya was honored by UNICEF for his contribution to women health-care initiatives and for distributing 10 crore sanitary napkins through Jan Aushadhi Kendras.
| Name | Shri Arjun Munda |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Tribal Affairs |
Arjun Munda is an Indian politician. He is the current Minister of Tribal Affairs in the Second Modi Ministry. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also Chief Minister of Indian State of Jharkhand. The BJP’s central leadership also appointed him a National General Secretary of the party recognising his strong credentials as a popular mass leader and his significant contributions in strengthening the party in his state.
| Name | Shri Piyush Goyal |
| Name of the Ministry | 1. Ministry of Textiles 2. Ministry of Commerce and Industry 3. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
Piyush Vedprakash Goyal is a politician and cabinet minister of the Government of India having portfolios such as Minister of Textiles, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
| Name | Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia |
| Name of the Ministry | 1. Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs 2. Ministry of Coal 3. Ministry of Mines |
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia is an Indian Politician who serves as the Minister of Civil Aviation, a position his father held from 1991 to 1993. He also heads the Ministry of steel.
| Name | Shri Raj Kumar Singh |
| Name of the Ministry | 1. Ministry of Power 2. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy |
Raj Kumar Singh is a former Indian bureaucrat and a current Union Cabinet Minister in the Government of India. He is a Member of Indian Parliament for Arrah, Bihar, since May 2014. Singh is a 1975 batch Bihar cadre Indian Administrative officer and former Home Secretary of India.
| Name | Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Food Processing Industries |
Pashupati Kumar Paras is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the Minister of Food Processing Industries in the Government of India. He also held the post of the Minister of Animal and Fisheries Resources in the Government of Bihar.
| Name | Shri Giriraj Singh |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Rural DevelopmentMinistry of Panchayati Raj |
Giriraj Singh is an Indian politician and the Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department in the 23rd Ministry of Republic of India with a cabinet minister rank. He has also formerly served as Minister of Cooperative, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Resources Development in the Government of Bihar.
| Name | Shri Kiren Rijiju |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Law and Justice |
Kiren Rijiju is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh who serves as the Cabinet Minister of Law and Justice in the Government of India.
| Name | Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Jal Shakti |
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is an Indian Politician from Rajasthan who is currently serving as Union Cabinet Minister in Ministry of Jal Shakti.
| Name | Shri Hardeep Singh Puri |
| Name of the Ministry | 1. Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas 2. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs |
Hardeep Singh Puri (born 15 February 1952) is an Indian politician and former Indian diplomat who is currently serving as the Minister of petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs. He is a 1974 batch Indian Foreign Service Officer who served as the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013.
Puri joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2014, and became a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh in November, 2020. Earlier in May 2019, he had taken charge as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs and Civil Aviation and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.
Previously, Puri has served as the chairman of the United Nations Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee from January 2011 to February 2013; and joined International Peace Institute as a senior advisor in June 2013.
| Name | Shri Anurag Singh Thakur |
| Name of the Ministry | 1.Ministry of Information and Broadcasting 2. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports |
Anurag Singh Thakur is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliament in the Lok sabha from Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. He is the current Minister of Sports, Youth Affairs and Minister of Information and broadcasting in the Second Modi Ministry. Previously, Thakur served as a Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha in May 2008 in a by poll as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Coming from a political family of Himachal Pradesh, he is a long serving, four time Member of Parliament, being a member of 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Lok sabha.
Previously, he was the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) from May 2015 to February 2017, and had to leave that position after the Supreme Court order on BCCI governance.. On July 29, 2016, he became the first serving Member of Parliament from the BJP to become a regular commissioned officer in the Territorial Army.
He was involved in a legal struggle between the Himachal Pradesh State Government and the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association over the rights to the International Cricket Stadium at Dharamshala. There was also controversy over his appointment as the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and he had to leave that position following a Supreme Court order.
| Name | Shri Parshottam Rupala |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying |
Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala is an Indian politician and Minister of Fisheries in the Second Modi Ministry.
| Name | Shri Bhupender Yadav |
| Name of the Ministry | 1. Ministry or Environment, Forest and Climate Chane 2. Ministry of Labour and Employment |
Bhupender Yadav is an Indian politician who serves as the Union Cabinet Minister of Labour and Employment, Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the Government of India.
| Name | Shri G. Kishan Reddy |
| Name of the Ministry | 1. Ministry of Culture 2. Ministry of Tourism 3. Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region |
Gangapuram Kishan Reddy is an Indian Politician who is currently serving as Minister of Tourism, Culture and Development of North Eastern Region of India.
| Name | Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey |
| Name of the Ministry | Ministry of Heavy Industries |
Mahendra Nath Pandey is an Indian politician currently serving as Minister of Heavy Industries he previously served as Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship of India
(with inputs from wikipedia.org)