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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on Monday (June 10) announced the portfolios assigned to ministers a day after their swearing-in ceremony at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan. Key ministries in the portfolio were allotted to senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders. For instance, Home Affairs went to Amit Shah, Defence to Rajnath Singh, External Affairs to S Jaishankar, Road Transport to Nitin Gadkari and Finance to Nirmala Sitharaman.

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This time around, BJP chief JP Nadda has also been given a berth in the cabinet, as union health minister.

Before the allocation, it was speculated that the BJP would also reserve some portfolios for its allies as it requires their support to form a coalition government. 

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Telugu Desam Party, a key National Democratic Alliance member, managed to bag the Union Civil Aviation ministry, with its Ram Mohan Naidu in charge. Another key NDA ally Janata Dal (United) got the Panchayati Raj ministry, with Rajiv Ranjan Singh aka Lalan Singh at the helm.

In total, the government has 30 ministers in the union cabinet. Additionally, the Union Council of ministers has five miinisters of state with independent charge and 36 ministers of state.

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Meanwhile, PM Modi has also been given charge of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space, all important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any minister.

Ahead of the portfolio allocation and the official beginning of the Modi 3.0 administration, PM Modi called up former India president Pratibha Patil, former prime ministers Manmohan Singh and Deve Gowda to seek their blessings.

Here is the full list of ministers and the allocated portfolios:

No Cabinet, MoS Ministers Portfolios
     
1 Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space
     
2 Rajnath Singh Ministry of Defence
3 Amit Shah Home Ministry
4 Nitin Gadkari Minister for Road Transport & Highways
5 JP Nadda Health Ministry
6 Shivraj Singh Chouhan Agriculture Ministry
7 Nirmala Sitharaman Finance Ministry
8 S Jaishankar Ministry of External Affairs
9 Manohar Lal Khattar Housing and Urban Affairs, Power
10 HD Kumaraswamy Minister of Heavy Industries; Minister of Steel
11 Piyush Goyal Minister of Commerce and Industry
12 Dharmendra Pradhan Education Ministry
13 Jitan Ram Manjhi Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
14 Lalan Singh Minister of Panchayati Raj; Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
15 Sarbananda Sonowal Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
16 Virendra Kumar Social Justice
17 Ram Mohan Naidu Aviation Ministry
18 Pralhad Joshi Minister of Consumer Affairs
19 Jual Oram Minister of Tribal Affairs
20 Giriraj Singh Minister of Textiles
21 Ashwini Vaishnaw Minister of Railways, Minister of Information and Broadcasting
22 Jyotiraditya Scindia Minister of Development of North Eastern Region and Telecom
23 Bhupendra Yadav Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
23 Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism
24 Annapurna Devi Minister of Women and Child Development
25 Kiran Rijiju Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Minority Affairs
26 Hardeep Singh Puri Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
27 Mansukh Mandaviya Minister of Labour and Employment; Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
28 G Kishan Reddy Minister of Coal, Mines
29 Chirag Paswan Minister of Food Processing Industries
30 CR Patil Minister of Jal Shakti
     
 

Minister of State (Independent Charge)

  
     
1 Rao Inderjeet Singh Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Ministry of Planning; Ministry of Culture
2 Dr Jitendra Singh Ministry of Science and Technology; Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
3 Arjun Ram Meghwal Ministry of Law and Justice; Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
4 Jadhav Pratap Rao Ministry of Ayush; Health and Family Welfare
5 Jayant Chaudhary Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; Ministry of Education
     
  Minister of State (MoS)  
     
1 Jitin Prasad Commerce and Industry; Electronics and Information Technology
2 Shripad Yesso Naik Power Ministry
3 Pankaj Chaudhary Ministry of Finance
4 Krishan Pal Ministry of Cooperation
5 Ramdas Athawale Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
6 Ramnath Thakur Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
7 Nityanand Rai Ministry of Home Affairs
8 Anupriya Patel Health and Family Welfare; and Chemicals and Fertilizers.
9 V Somanna Ministry of Jal Shakti, Railways Ministry
10 Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Communications
11 SP Singh Baghel Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; Ministry of Panchayati Raj
12 Sobha Karandlaje Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
13 Kirti Vardhan Singh Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Ministry of External Affairs
14 BL Verma Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
15 Shantanu Thakur Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
16 Suresh Gopi Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
17 L Murugan Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
18 Ajay Tamta Minister for Road Transport & Highways
19 Bandi Sanjay Kumar Ministry of Home Affairs
20 Kamlesh Paswan Ministry of Rural Development
21 Bhagirath Choudhary Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
22 Satish Chandra Dubey Ministry of Coal, Ministry of Mines
23 Sanjay Seth Ministry of Defence
24 Ravneet Singh Bittu Ministry of Food Processing Industries; Ministry of Railways
25 Durga Das Uikey Ministry of Tribal Affairs
26 Raksha Nikhil Khadse Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
27 Sukanta Majumdar Ministry of Education, Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
28 Savitri Thakur Ministry of Women and Child Development
29 Tokhan Sahu Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
30 Raj Bhushan Chaudhary Ministry of Jal Shakti
31 Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma Ministry of Heavy Industries, Ministry of Steel
32 Harsh Malhotra Minister for Road Transport & Highways
33 Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
34 Murlidhar Mohol Ministry of Cooperation, Ministry of Civil Aviation
35 George Kurian Ministry of Minority Affairs, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
36 Pabitra Margherita Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Textiles