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Council of Ministers
Council of Ministers is mandated by the constitution to be members of either House of the Parliament of India.

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Council of MinistersCouncil 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. 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.

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 Indian General election 2014, Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India and under him there is the Council of Ministers composed of 45 members. They took the oath on 26th May 2014, after the landslide victory in general election conducted by the Election Commission of India.

Cabinet Ministers of India

Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India
Shri Raj Nath Singh Home Affairs
Smt. Sushma Swaraj External Affairs
Overseas Indian Affairs
Shri Arun Jaitley Finance
Corporate Affairs
Information & Broadcasting
Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu Urban Development
Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Parliamentary Affairs
Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari Road Transport and Highways
Shipping
Shri Manohar Parrikar Defence
Shri Suresh Prabhu Railways
Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda Law and Justice
Sushri Uma Bharati Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Dr. Najma A. Heptulla Minority Affairs
Shri Ramvilas Paswan Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Shri Kalraj Mishra Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Women and Child Development
Shri Ananthkumar Chemicals and Fertilizers
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Communications and Information Technology
Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda Health and Family Welfare
Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati Civil Aviation
Shri Anant Geete Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal Food Processing Industries
Shri Narendra Singh Tomar Mines
Steel
Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh Rural Development
Panchayati Raj
Drinking Water and Sanitation
Shri Jual Oram Tribal Affairs
Shri Radha Mohan Singh Agriculture
Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot Social Justice and Empowerment
Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani Human Resource Development
Dr. Harsh Vardhan Science and Technology
Earth Sciences


Ministers of State with Independent Charge
General V. K. Singh Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge)
External Affairs
Overseas Indian Affairs
Shri Inderjit Singh Rao Planning (Independent Charge)
Defence
Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Textiles (Independent Charge)
Shri Bandaru Dattatreya Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)
Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
Parliamentary Affairs
Shri Shripad Yesso Naik AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
Health & Family Welfare
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Shri Sarbananda Sonowal Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
Shri Prakash Javadekar Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
Shri Piyush Goyal Power (Independent Charge)
Coal (Independent Charge)
New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
Dr. Jitendra Singh Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge)
Prime Minister"s Office
Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Atomic Energy
Department of Space
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
Dr. Mahesh Sharma Culture (Independent Charge)
Tourism (Independent Charge)
Civil Aviation


Ministers of State
Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minority Affairs
Parliamentary Affairs
Shri Ram Kripal Yadav Drinking Water and Sanitation
Shri Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary Home Affairs
Shri Sanwar Lal Jat Water Resources
River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya Agriculture
Shri Giriraj Singh Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir Chemicals & Fertilizers
Shri G. M. Siddeshwara Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Shri Manoj Sinha Railways
Shri Nihalchand Panchayati Raj
Shri Upendra Kushwaha Human Resources Development
Shri Radhakrishnan P Road Transport & Highways
Shipping
Shri Kiren Rijiju Home Affairs
Shri Krishan Pal Social Justice & Empowerment
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Agriculture
Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava Tribal Affairs
Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Shri Vishnu Deo Sai Mines
Steel
Shri Sudarshan Bhagat Rural Development
Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria Human Resource Development
Shri Y. S. Chowdary Science and Technology
Earth Science
Shri Jayant Sinha Finance
Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Information & Broadcasting
Shri Babul Supriyo Urban Development
Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Food Processing Industries
Shri Vijay Sampla Social Justice & Empowerment



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