The Union Cabinet Ministers of India, as per the Constitution of India, are responsible for the execution and administration of laws. A number of Union Ministries and Departments have been created therefore by the Indian Parliament for the greater interest in dealing with specific areas of national and international affairs. The Ministries also act in advisory and funding capacity in dealing the matters which are deputed to the States. The ministers are based in offices of their respective Union Ministries in New Delhi. The Parliament comprises the President, Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. Both the houses of Parliament give consents to all the governance.

However, the will of the Lok Sabha always endures in case of money bills. The Government of India, commonly as known as Central Government, also officially referred as the Union Government.

The following are the list of the present Cabinet Ministers:

Cabinet Ministers
Name of Ministers	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 Gas
Shri Kamal Nath	Minister of Urban Development
Shri Vayalar Ravi	Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs
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
Ajit Singh Chaudhary	Minister of Civil Aviation
Shri Jairam Ramesh	Minister of Rural Development

Amongst the above mentioned ministers, majority are from the Indian National Congress, including Manmohan Singh. Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel belong to the Nationalist Congress Party; where as Farooq Abdullah, leads the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and Ajit Singh belongs to Rashtriya Lok Dal.