Union Council of Ministers is formed under the leadership of the Prime Minister in the Republic of India. This Council comprises the Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State and the Deputy Ministers. The number of the members of the Council of Ministers has specified by the Constitution of India. The Union Council of Ministers remains collectively responsible to the Indian Parliament. In addition to the collective responsibility, the ministers are also individually responsible for the functioning of their respective departments. The Council of Ministers is responsible for preparing and introducing bills in the Parliament; to aid and advise the President in the exercise of his functions; to determine the policy and administer them and to implement all the decisions adopted by the Parliament of India. The Union Council of Ministers carries out their functions with the help of the government officials.

After the General Election in 2011 the current Council of Ministers in the Republic of India comprises the following names:








Cabinet Ministers:

Name of Minister	Portfolio
Dr. Manmohan Singh	Prime Minister and also in-charge of the Ministries/Departments not specifically allocated to the charge of any Minister viz.: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Ministry of Planning, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space
Shri Pranab Mukherjee	Minister of Finance
Shri Sharad Pawar	Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Food Processing Industries
Shri A.K. Antony	Minister of Defence
Shri P. Chidambaram	Minister of Home Affairs
Shri S.M. Krishna	Minister of External Affairs
Shri Virbhadra Singh	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh	Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences
Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad	Minister of Health and Family Welfare
Shri Sushilkumar Shinde	Minister of Power
Shri M. Veerappa Moily	Minister of Corporate Affairs
Dr. Farooq Abdullah	Minister of New and Renewable Energy
Shri S. Jaipal Reddy	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Shri Kamal Nath	Minister of Urban Development
Shri Vayalar Ravi	Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and Minister of Civil Aviation
Smt. Ambika Soni	Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Shri Mallikarjun Kharge	Minister of Labour and Employment
Shri Kapil Sibal	Minister of Human Resource Development and Minister of Communications and Information Technology
Shri Anand Sharma	Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Textiles
Shri C.P. Joshi	Minister of Road Transport and Highways
Kumari Selja	Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Minister of Culture
Shri Subodh Kant Sahay	Minister of Tourism
Shri G.K. Vasan	Minister of Shipping
Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Water Resources
Shri Mukul Wasnik	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
Shri M.K. Alagiri	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Shri Praful Patel	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Shri Shriprakash Jaiswal	Minister of Coal
Shri Salman Khursheed	Minister of Law and Justice and Minister of Minority Affairs
Shri V. Kishore Chandra Deo	Minister of Tribal Affairs and Minister of Panchayati Raj
Shri Beni Prasad Verma	Minister of Steel
Shri Dinesh Trivedi	Minister of Railways
Shri Jairam Ramesh	Minister of Rural Development

Ministers of State with Independent Charge:

Name of Ministers	Portfolio
Shri Dinsha J. Patel	Ministry of Mines
Smt. Krishna Tirath	Ministry of Women and Child Development
Shri Ajay Maken	Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Prof. K.V. Thomas	Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Shri Srikant Jena	Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan	Ministry of Environment and Forests
Shri Paban Singh Ghatowar	Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
Shri Gurudas Kamat	Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation

Ministers of State:

Name of Ministers	Portfolio
Shri E. Ahamed	Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Human Resource Development
Shri Mullappally Ramachandran	Ministry of Home Affairs
Shri V. Narayanasamy	Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Prime Minister`s Office
Shri Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia	Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Smt. D. Purandeswari	Ministry of Human Resource Development
Shri K.H. Muniappa	Ministry of Railways
Smt. Panabaka Lakshmi	Ministry of Textiles
Shri Namo Narain Meena	Ministry of Finance
Shri M.M. Pallam Raju	Ministry of Defence
Shri Saugata Ray	Ministry of Urban Development
Shri S.S. Palanimanickam	Ministry of Finance
Shri Jitin Prasada	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Smt. Preneet Kaur	Ministry of External Affairs
Shri Harish Rawat	Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Food Processing Industries and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Shri Bharatsinh Solanki	Ministry of Railways
Shri Mahadev S. Khandela	Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Shri Sisir Adhikari	Ministry of Rural Development
Shri Sultan Ahmed	Ministry of Tourism
Shri Mukul Roy	Ministry of Shipping
Shri Choudhury Mohan Jatua	Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Shri D. Napoleon	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Dr. S. Jagathrakshakan	Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Shri S. Gandhiselvan	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Shri Tusharbhai Chaudhary	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Shri Sachin Pilot	Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Shri Pratik Prakashbapu Patil	Ministry of Coal
Shri R.P.N. Singh	Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Shri Vincent Pala	Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Minority Affairs
Shri Pradeep Jain	Ministry of Rural Development
Ms. Agatha Sangma	Ministry of Rural Development
Shri Ashwani Kumar	Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences
Shri K.C. Venugopal	Ministry of Power
Shri Sudip Bandyopadhyay	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Shri Charan Das Mahant	Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Shri Jitendra Singh	Ministry of Home Affairs
Shri Milind Deora	Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Shri Rajeev Shukla	Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs