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List of Cabinet Ministers of India: 2021

On July 7, 2021, PM Modi reshuffled his cabinet for the first time, previously, held in May 2019, acquiring some new faces and obliging allies of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). 

A total of 43 MPs made vows as Ministers in Rashtrapati Bhavan on this day including Narayan Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ajay Bhatt, Bhupender Yadav, Shobha Karandlaje, Sunita Duggal, Meenakshi Lekhi, among others. 

Along with these ministers, seven ministers of State were advanced including Anurag Thakur, G Kishan Reddy, Paroshottam Rupala, Kiren Rijiju, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya, and Raj Kumar Singh. 

In front of a huge reshuffle, a call prompted the acquiescence of 12 Ministers from the Modi Cabinet. In the below table, you can check the total rundown of the Council of Ministers Of India, who have been enlisted into the new Modi Cabinet alongside their portfolios and their pictures.


Council of Ministers of India

The below table consists of the All Central Ministers of India list:


S.No.

Important Ministers of India

Function: India Minister list

Picture: India Minister list

1.

Shri Rajnath Singh

Defence Minister

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2.

Shri. Nitin Jairam Gadkari

Minister of Road, Transport, and Highways

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3.

Shri Amit Shah

Minister of Home Affairs and Cooperation

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4.

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs

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5.

Shri Narendra Singh Tomar

Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister

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6.

Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister

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7.

Shri Arjun Munda

Tribal Affairs Minister

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8.

Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani

Women and Child Development Minister

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10.

Sh. Piyush Goyal

Minister of Commerce and Industry

Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution Minister

Textiles Minister

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11.

Shri Dharmendra Pradhan

Minister of Education, Skill Development, and Entrepreneurship

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12.

Sh. Pralhad Joshi

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Coal, and Mines

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13.

Sh. Narayan Tatu Rane

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Minister

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14.

Sh. Sarbananda Sonowal

Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways

Minister of AYUSH (Full form: Ayurveda, Yoga, and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy)

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15.

Sh. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Minority Affairs Minister

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16.

Dr. Virendra Kumar

Social Justice and Empowerment Minister

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17.

Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia

Civil Aviation Minister

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18.

Shri Ramchandra Prasad Singh

Minister of Steel

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19.

Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw

Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics, and IT

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20.

Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras

Food and Processing Industries Minister

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21.

Shri Raj Kumar Singh

Power, New, and Renewable Energy Minister

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22.

Shri Kiren Rijiju

Law and Justice Minister

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23.

Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Jal Shakti Minister

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24.

Shri Hardeep Singh Puri

Minister of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Housing, and Urban Affairs Minister

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25.

Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya

Health, Family Welfare, Chemicals, and Fertilizers Minister

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26.

Shri Bhupender Yadav

Minister of Forest, Environment, and Climate Change, Labour and Employment

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27.

Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey

Heavy Industries Minister

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28.

Shri G. Kishan Reddy

Culture, and Tourism Minister and the Minister of the development of North Eastern Region 

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29.

Shri Parshottam Rupala

Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying Minister

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30.

Shri Anurag Singh Thakur

Minister of Youth Affairs, and Sports


Information and Broadcasting Minister

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Now, let us discuss the name of all ministers in India that include the young cabinet ministers of India under the Modi cabinet.


Young Cabinet Ministers of India

Below is the all Indian ministers list:

  • Smriti Irani

She is the youngest and the oldest cabinet minister. Her meteoric rise in the BJP led her to become the Women and Child Development Minister. She assumed this post in June 2019.  

She is a woman with a never giving attitude who held the office as Union Minister for HRD and textiles. She held the post as HRD minister from May 2014 to July 2016 and for Information and Broadcasting between the period of July 2017 to May 2018. 

  • Nisith Pramanik

Though Indian politicians consider 50-year olds among the young cabinet ministers of India, he is only 35 but his achievements brought him to Cooch Behar and marked it on the national map.

On 7 July 2021, Nisith Pramanik vowed as a Minister of State, where he received the distinction of being the first-ever Central minister from the district of Cooch Behar, West Bengal. Maharani Gayatri Devi, the third Maharani consort of Jaipur, is the princess of Cooch Behar. Also in 2019, he led the groundwork for Mission Bengal 'Unishe Half, Ekushe Saaf in North Bengal. 


State Ministers (Independent Charge)


Shri Rao Inderjit Singh

Minister of Statistics, Programme Implementation, and Planning

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Dr. Jitendra Singh

Minister of Earth Science and Technology

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Ministers of State

The below list comprises the statewide list of a Cabinet Minister Of India: 


S.No.

All ministers of India list

Position held: Cabinet Minister of India

Picture of a Minister

1.

Dr. Jitendra Singh

  • PMO

  • Prime Minister's Office

  • Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions

  • Department of Atomic Energy, and Space

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2.

Shri Shripad Yesso Naik

Minister of  Shipping, Ports, and Waterways, and Tourism

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3.

Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste

Steel

Rural Development Minister

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4.

Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey

Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution Minister


Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister

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5.

Shri Prahalad Singh Patel

Minister of Jal Shakti

Food Processing Industries Minister

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6.

Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal

Minister of Culture, and Parliamentary Affairs

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7.

Retd. General (Retd.) V.K. Singh

Civil Aviation, Road Transport, and Highways Minister

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8.

Shri Krishan Pal

Power, and Heavy Industries Minister

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9.

Shri Ramdas Athawale

Social Justice and Empowerment Minister

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10.

Shri Sanjeev Kumar Balyan

Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying

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11.

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti

Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution Minister

Rural Development Minister

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12.

Shri Nityanand Rai

Home Affairs Minister

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13.

Shri Pankaj Chowdhary

Finance Minister

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14.

Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel

Minister of Commerce and Industry

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15.

Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel

Minister of Law and Justice

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16.

Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

Minister of Electronics and IT


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17.

Sushri Shobha Karandlaje

Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

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18.

Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma


Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Minister

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19.

Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh

Minister of Textiles and Railways

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20.

Shri V. Muraleedharan

Minister of External and Parliamentary Affairs

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21.

Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi

Minister of External Affairs, and Culture

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22.

Shri Som Parkash

Commerce and Industry Minister

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23.

Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta

Tribal Affairs Minister

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24.

Shri Rameswar Teli

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Minister of Labour and Employment

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25.

Shri Kailash Choudhary

Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister

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26.

Smt. Annapurna Devi

Education Minister

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27.

Shri A. Narayanaswamy

Social Justice and Empowerment Minister

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28.

Shri Kaushal Kishore

Housing and Urban Affairs Minister

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29.

Shri Ajay Bhatt

Minister of Defence and Tourism

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30.

Shri B. L. Verma

Minister of:

Cooperation, and

Development of North Eastern Region

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31.

Shri Ajay Kumar

Home Affairs Minister

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32.

Shri Devusinh Chauhan

Minister of Communications

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33.

Shri Bhagwanth Khuba

Minister of:

Renewable Energy

Chemicals and Fertilizers

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34.

Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil

Panchayati Raj Minister

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35.

Sushri Pratima Bhoumik

Social Justice and Empowerment Minister

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36.

Dr. Subhas Sarkar

Education Minister

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37.

Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad

Finance Minister

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38.

Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh

External Affairs and Education Minister

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39.

Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar

Health and Family Welfare Minister

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40.

Shri Bishweswar Tudu

Tribal Affairs and Jal Shakti Minister

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41.

Dr. Rao Inderjit Singh

Corporate Affairs Minister

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42.

Shri Shantanu Thakur

Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Minister

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43.

Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai

Minister of:

Women and Child Development, and 

AYUSH


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44.

Shri John Barla

Minority Affairs Minister

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45.

Dr. L. Murugan

Minister of :

Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying

Information and Broadcasting

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46.

Shri Nisith Pramanik

Home Affairs, and Youth Affairs and Sports Minister

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FAQs on List of Cabinet Ministers of India

1. Who is the Head of the Cabinet Minister of India?

Ans: The prime minister of India heads all the cabinet ministers and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, most often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. All cabinet ministers work under the PM in a hierarchy and the PM himself is responsible for certain portfolios and other portfolios that have not been allotted.

2. Who Was India’s Deputy Prime Minister in 2020?

Ans: In the year 2020, Lal Krishna Advani was the seventh and last person to serve as the deputy PM of India until the post became vacant. However, the current government does not have any position of deputy prime minister after May 23, 2004.

3. What are the Three Categories of Ministers in India?

Ans: The Union Council of Ministers comprises the three following categories of ministers, i.e. Cabinet, Ministry of State, and Deputy Ministers