{**UPDATED**} CABINET MINISTERS & MINISTERS OF STATE - 2016

CABINET MINISTERS

**1. Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs 

**2. Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs 

**3. Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Information & Broadcasting 

**4. M Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs 

**5. Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping 

**6. Manohar Parrikar: Defence

**7. Suresh Prabhu: Railways

**8. DV Sadananda Gowda: Law & Justice

**9. Sushri Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

**10. Najma A Heptulla: Minority Affairs

**11. Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

**12. Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

**13. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi: Women and Child Development

**14. Ananthkumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers

**15. Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology

**16. Jagat Prakash Nadda: Health & Family Welfare

**17. Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation

**18. Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

**19. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries

**20. Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel

**21. Chaudhary Birender Singh: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation

**22. Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs

**23. Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture

**24. Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment

**25. Smriti Zubin Irani: Human Resource Development

**26. Harsh Vardhan: Science and Technology, Earth Sciences

MINISTERS OF STATE

**27. General VK Singh: Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs

**28. Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), Defence

**29. Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge)

**30. Bandaru Dattatreya: Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)

**31. Rajiv Pratap Rudy: Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs

**32. Shripad Yesso Naik: AAYUSH (Independent Charge), Health & Family Welfare

**33. Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

**34. Sarbananda Sonowal: Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

**35. Prakash Javadekar: Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)

**36. Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)

**37. Jitendra Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister's Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space

**38. Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)

**39. Mahesh Sharma: Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge), Civil Aviation

**40. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs

**41. Ram Kripal Yadav: Drinking Water & Sanitation

**42. Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary: Home Affairs

**43. Sanwar Lal Jat: Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

**44. Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya: Agriculture

**45. Giriraj Singh: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

**46. Hansraj Gangaram Ahir: Chemicals & Fertilizers

**47. GM Siddeshwara: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

**48. Manoj Sinha: Railways

**49. Nihalchand: Panchayati Raj

**50. Upendra Kushwaha: Human Resource Development

**51. Radhakrishnan P: Road Transport & Highways, Shipping

**52. Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs

**53. Krishan Pal: Social Justice & Empowerment

**54. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture

**55. Manuskhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs

**56. Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

**57. Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel

**58. Sudarshan Bhagat: Rural Development

**59. Ram Shankar Katheria: Human Resource Development

**60. YS Chowdary: Science and Technology, Earth Science

**61. Jayant Sinha: Finance

**62. Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore: Information & Broadcasting

**63. Babul Supria (Babul Supriyo) Baral: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

**64. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Food Processing Industries

**65. Vijay Sampla: Social Justice & Empowerment