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.

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. 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. Also read: Five major global events that will require immediate attention of Modi 3.0 govt 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. Also read: 'Respect each other's concerns,' PM Modi's cautionary response to Canadian PM Trudeau 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

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Modi 3.0 cabinet announced: BJP retains key ministries; allies JDU, TDP bag big