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Cabinet Reshuffle: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s New Ministerial Team
Prime MInister Modi’s new top team sees big changes.
04 Sep 2017, 06:49 PM IST 
(Source: PIB)
In a significant reshuffle of important portfolios, including defence and railways, and the induction of nine new ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reworked his team for the third time since forming government in 2014.
The headline making moves are that Nirmala Sitharaman, so far commerce minister, has now been entrusted the defence portfolio. Suresh Prabhu lost the railways portfolio to Piyush Goyal. Prabhu is now in charge of commerce and industry.
Cabinet Ministers
- Rajnath Singh - Home Affairs
- Sushma Swaraj - External Affairs
- Arun Jaitley - Finance, Corporate Affairs,
Defence - Nitin Gadkari - Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
- Suresh Prabhu - Commerce and Industry,
Railways - Sadananda Gowda - Statistics and Programme Implementation
- Uma Bharati - Drinking Water and Sanitation,
Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation - Ram Vilas Paswan - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Kalraj Mishra - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(RESIGNED)- Maneka Gandhi - Women and Child Development
- Ananth Kumar - Parliamentary Affairs, Chemicals and Fertilizers
- Ravi Shankar Prasad - Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology
- Jagat Prakash Nadda - Health and Family Welfare
- Ashok Gajapathi Raju - Civil Aviation
- Anant Geete - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
- Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Food Processing Industries
- Narendra Singh Tomar - Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Mines,
Drinking Water and Sanitation, Housing and Urban Affairs - Chaudhary Birender Singh - Steel
- Jual Oram - Tribal Affairs
- Radha Mohan Singh - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Thawar Chand Gehlot - Social Justice and Empowerment
- Smriti Irani - Textiles, Information and Broadcasting
- Harsh Vardhan - Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- Prakash Javadekar - Human Resource Development
- Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- Piyush Goyal - Railways, Coal
- Nirmala Sitharaman - Defence
- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi - Minority Affairs,
Parliamentary Affairs
Also Read: Live Updates Of The Cabinet Reshuffle
President Ram Nath Kovind administers the oath of office to the newly inducted Cabinet Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal ,Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi ,Dharmendra Pradhan during the swearing in ceremony a at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on September 3, 2017. (Photographer: Kamal Kishore/PTI)
Ministers Of State (Independent Charge)
- Rao Inderjit Singh - Planning (Independent Charge), Chemicals and Fertilizers,
Housing and Urban Affairs Bandaru Dattatreya - Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)RESIGNEDVijay Goel - Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Water Resources, River Development and Ganga RejuvenationNO INDEPENDENT CHARGE ANYMORE- Shripad Yesso Naik - Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) (Independent Charge)
- Jitendra Singh - Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
- Mahesh Sharma - Culture (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change,
Tourism (Independent Charge) - Manoj Sinha - Communications (Independent Charge), Railways
- Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore - Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Information and Broadcasting
- Giriraj Singh - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Independent Charge)
- Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Labour and Employment (Independent Charge),
Finance - Alphons Kannanthanam - Ministry of Tourism (Independent Charge), Electronics and Information Technology
- Raj Kumar Singh - Power (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
- Hardeep Singh Puri - Housing and Urban Affairs (Independent Charge)
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President Ram Nath Kovind administers oath to the newly inducted ministers of state, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Virendra Kumar and Shiv Pratap Shukla, Satya Pal Singh, RK Singh and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Hardeep Singh Puri, Alphons Kannanthanam and Anantkumar Hegde at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on September 3, 2017. (Photographer: Kamal Kishore/PTI)
Ministers Of State
- Vijay Goel - Parliamentary Affairs, Statistics and Programme Implementation
- Radhakrishnan P -
Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Finance - SS Ahluwalia -
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs, Drinking Water and Sanitation - Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi - Drinking Water and Sanitation
- Ramdas Athawale - Social Justice and Empowerment
- Vishnu Deo Sai - Steel
- Ram Kripal Yadav - Rural Development
- Hansraj Gangaram Ahir - Home Affairs
- Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary -
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Mines, Coal - Rajen Gohain - Railways
- VK Singh - External Affairs
- Parshottam Rupala - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Panchayati Raj
- Krishan Pal - Social Justice and Empowerment
- Jaswantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor - Tribal Affairs
- Shiv Pratap Shukla - Finance
- Ashwini Kumar Choubey - Health and Family Welfare
- Gajendra Singh Shekhawat - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Virendra Kumar - Women and Child Development, Minority Affairs
- Anantkumar Hegde - Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
- Satya Pal Singh - Human Resource Development, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
- Sudarshan Bhagat - Tribal Affairs,
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare - Upendra Kushwaha - Human Resources Development
- Kiren Rijiju - Home Affairs
- MJ Akbar - External Affairs
- Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti - Food Processing Industries
- YS Chowdary - Science and Technology, Earth Science
- Jayant Sinha - Civil Aviation
- Babul Supriyo - Heavy Industries, Public Enterprises
- Vijay Sampla - Social Justice and Empowerment
- Arjun Ram Meghwal - Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation,
Finance, Corporate Affairs - Ajay Tamta - Textiles
- Krishna Raj - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare,
Women and Child Development - Mansukh Mandaviya - Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Chemicals and Fertilizers
- Anupriya Patel - Health and Family Welfare
- CR Chaudhary - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Commerce and Industry
- PP Chaudhary - Law and Justice, Corporate Affairs,
Electronics and Information Technology - Subhash Ramrao Bhamre - Defence
Faggan Singh Kulaste - Health and Family WelfareRESIGNEDSanjeev Kumar Balyan - Water Resources, River Development and Ganga RejuvenationRESIGNEDMahendra Nath Pandey - Human Resource DevelopmentRESIGNED
Words in bold indicate change in status (cabinet/indepenent charge) or new portfolio. Struck out words suggest the portfolio is no longer with that minister or that the individual is no longer a minister in that list, or at all.