The day-to-day execution and administration of national laws lies in the hands of the several federal Union Ministries and Departments, . This has been totally created by the Indian Parliament in order to deal with specific areas of national and international affairs. In matters which are deputed to the States, these Ministries act in consultatory and funding capacity.

The Parliament, the Legislative Arm of the Union, comprises of the President, Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. The both houses of Parliament gave consents to all the governance. However, the will of the Lok Sabha always endures in case of money bills. Thus the Government of India, commonly as Central Government also officially referred as the Union Government.

Following are the brief profiles of the Cabinet ministers and their departments in the Union Council.

1	Dr. Manmohan Singh	Prime Minister and also in-charge of the Ministries/ Departments not specifically allocated to the charge of any Minister viz.:
		(i) Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions;
		(ii) Ministry of Planning;
		(iii) Department of Atomic Energy; and
		(iv) Department of Space;
		(v)  Ministry of  Coal. and
		(vi) Ministry of  Environment and Forests.
2	Shri Pranab Mukherjee	Minister of External Affairs.
3	Shri Arjun Singh	Minister of Human Resource Development.
4	Shri Sharad Pawar	Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
5	Shri Lalu Prasad	Minister of Railways.
6	Shri A.K. Antony	Minister of Defence
7	Shri Shivraj V. Patil	Minister of Home Affairs.
8	Shri A.R. Antulay	Minister of Minority Affairs.
9	Shri Sushilkumar Shinde	Minister of Power
10	Shri Ram Vilas Paswan	Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers and Minister of Steel.
11	Shri S. Jaipal Reddy	Minister of Urban Development.
12	Shri Sis Ram Ola	Minister of Mines.
13	Shri P. Chidambaram	Minister of Finance.
14	Shri Mahavir Prasad	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
15	Shri P.R. Kyndiah	Minister of Tribal Affairs.
16	Shri T.R. Baalu	Minister of Shipping,  Road Transport & Highways.
17	Shri Shankersinh Vaghela	Minister of Textiles.
18	Shri Vayalar Ravi	Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs.
19	Shri Kamal Nath	Minister of Commerce & Industry.
20	Shri H.R. Bhardwaj	Minister of Law & Justice.
21	Shri Sontosh Mohan Dev	Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises.
22	Prof. Saif-ud-din Soz	Minister of Water Resources.
23	Shri Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	Minister of Rural Development.
24	Shri Priyaranjan Dasmunsi	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Information & Broadcasting.
25	Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar	Minister of  Panchayati Raj,  Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region. .
26	Smt. Meira Kumar	Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment.
27	Shri Murli Deora	Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas.
28	Smt. Ambika Soni	Minister of Tourism and Minister of  Culture.
29	Shri A. Raja	Minister of   Communications and Information Technology.
30	Dr. Anbumani Ramdoss	Minister of  Health & Family Welfare.
31	Shri Kapil Sibal	Minister of   Science & Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences.
32	Shri Prem Chand Gupta	Minister of  Corporate Affairs.