Cabinet Ministers of India 2016-General Knowledge

Cabinet Ministers of India 2016

The 16th Lok Sabha of India came into being on 26th May, 2014 with the oath-taking ceremony of the India's 15th Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with other ministers. 

Modi combined some departments which work in close tandem by bringing them under one ministry, thus reducing the size of the cabinet considerably.

Prime Ministers	Ministry
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.

Cabinet Ministers : 

Ministers	Ministry
Shri Raj Nath Singh	Minister of Home Affairs.
Smt .Sushma Swaraj	Minister of External Affairs
Shri Arun Jaitley	Minister of Finance; Minister of Corporate Affairs
Smt Nirmala Sitharaman	Minister of Defence
Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Minister of Shipping, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Shri Piyush Goyal	Ministry of Coal Ministry of Railways
Shri Suresh Prabhu	Minister of Commerce and Industry.
Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda	Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
Smt Uma Bharati	Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
Shri Prakash Javadekar	Minister of Human Resource Development.
Shri Kalraj Mishra	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi	Minister of Women and Child Development
Shri Ananthkumar	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers; and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad	Minister of Law and Justice; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda	Minister of Health and Family Welfare.
Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati	Minister of Civil Aviation.
Shri Ramvilas Paswan	Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
Shri Anant Geete	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
Smt Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Minister of Food Processing Industries.
Shri Narendra Singh Tomar	Minister of Rural Development; Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Minister of Urban Development
Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh	Minister of Steel.
Shri Jual Oram	Minister of Tribal Affairs
Shri Radha Mohan Singh	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
Smt Smriti Zubin Irani	Minister of Textiles.Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Shri Harsh Vardhan	Ministry of Science and Technology Ministry of Earth Sciences Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Minister of State: 

Ministers	Ministry
Rao Inderjit Singh	Planning (Independent Charge), Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
Bandaru Dattatreya	Labour & Employment (Independent Charge)
Rajiv Pratap Rudy	Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore	Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
Shripad Yesso Naik	Department of Ayurveda, Yoga, and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH)
Dharmendra Pradhan	Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Piyush Goyal	Power (Independent Charge),Coal (Independent Charge),New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge),Mines (Independent Charge)
Jitendra Singh	Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge)
Nirmala Sitharaman	Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
Mahesh Sharma	Culture (Independent Charge),Tourism (Independent Charge)
Manoj Sinha	Communications (Independent Charge),Railways
Anil Madhav Dave	Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
General V. K. Singh	External Affairs
Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Finance
Faggan Singh Kulaste	Health & Family Welfare
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Minority Affairs ,Parliamentary Affairs
SS Ahluwalia	Agriculture & Farmers Welfare,Parliamentary Affairs
Ramdas Athawale	Social Justice & Empowerment
Ram Kripal Yadav	Rural Development
Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary	Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Giriraj Singh	Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Hansraj Gangaram Ahir	Home Affairs
G M Siddeshwara	Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi	Drinking Water & Sanitation
Rajen Gohain	Railways
Parshottam Rupala	Agriculture & Farmers Welfare,Panchayati Raj
MJ Akbar	External Affairs
Upendra Kushwaha	Human Resources Development
Radhakrishnan P	Road Transport & Highways,Shipping
Kiren Rijiju	Home Affairs
Krishan Pal	Social Justice & Empowerment
Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor	Tribal Affairs
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Vishnu Deo Sai	Steel
Sudarshan Bhagat	Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Y S Chowdary	Science & Technology,Earth Science
Jayant Sinha	Civil Aviation
Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore	Information & Broadcasting
Babul Supriyo	Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	Food Processing Industries
Vijay Sampla	Social Justice & Empowerment
Arjun Ram Meghwal	Finance,Corporate Affairs
Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey	Human Resource Development
Ajay Tamta	Textiles
Krishna Raj	Women & Child Development
Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Road Transport & Highways,Shipping,Chemicals & Fertilizers
Anupriya Patel	Health & Family Welfare
CR Chaudhary	Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
P P Chaudhary	Law & Justice,Electronics & Information Technology
Subhash Ramrao Bhamre	Defence
Raj Nath Singh	Minister of Home Affairs.
Smt .Sushma Swaraj	Minister of External Affairs
Arun Jaitley	Minister of Finance; Minister of Corporate Affairs
Shri Santhosh Kumar Gangwar	Minister of Labour and Employment
Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Shipping
Manohar Parrikar	Minister of Defence
Suresh Prabhu	Minister of Railways
D.V. Sadananda Gowda	Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
Smt Uma Bharati	Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
Prakash Javadekar	Minister of Human Resource Development.
Kalraj Mishra	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi	Minister of Women and Child Development
Ananthkumar	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers; and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.
Ravi Shankar Prasad	Minister of Law and Justice; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
Jagat Prakash Nadda	Minister of Health and Family Welfare.
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati	Minister of Civil Aviation.
Ramvilas Paswan	Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
Anant Geete	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
Smt Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Minister of Food Processing Industries.
Narendra Singh Tomar	Minister of Rural Development; Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
Chaudhary Birender Singh	Minister of Steel.
Jual Oram	Minister of Tribal Affairs
Radha Mohan Singh	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Thaawar Chand Gehlot	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
Smriti Zubin Irani	Minister of Textiles.
Harsh Vardhan	Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences.