The final allocation of cabinet portfolios was announced on Friday, a day after Narendra Modi was sworn in as the Prime Minister of India for the second time by President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Along with PM Modi, 24 Cabinet ministers, nine Ministers of State (Independent charge) and 24 Ministers of State took the oath.

PM Modi will personally handle the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; and other important policy issues.

The remaining cabinet positions were filled by senior leaders of the BJP and its allies in theNational Democratic Alliance (NDA).

Of all 58 leaders sworn-in as Union ministers, 54 are from the BJP while the remaining are from the four NDA allies – Shiv Sena, Shiromani Akali Dal, Lok Janshakti Party, and Republican Party of India (A).

Other NDA partners like Nitish Kumar-led JD (U) and Anupriya Patel’s Apna Dal have no ministers in the new cabinet as they were unhappy with the proposed allocations.

In a landslide victory, the BJP managed to secure 303 seats on its own in the 545-member house in the recently concluded seven-phased 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The tally of the BJP-led NDA stood at 353 seats.

The final list of ministers and their designated portfolios in Modi 2.0 cabinet are given below.

Cabinet Ministers

Sr. No	Minister	Portfolio
1	Shri Raj Nath Singh	Minister of Defence
2	Shri Amit Shah	Minister of Home Affairs
3	Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Highways + Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
4	Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
5	Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman	Minister of Finance + Minister of Corporate Affairs
6	Shri Ramvilas Paswan	Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
7	Shri Narendra Singh Tomar	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare + Minister of Rural Development + Minister of Panchayati Raj
8	Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad	Minister of Law and Justice + Minister of Communications + Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
9	Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Minister of Food Processing Industries
10	Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
11	Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	Minister of External Affairs
12	Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’	Minister of Human Resource Development
13	Shri Arjun Munda	Minister of Tribal Affairs
14	Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani	Minister of Women and Child Development + Minister of Textiles
15	Dr. Harsh Vardhan	Minister of Health and Family Welfare + Minister of Science and Technology + Minister of Earth Sciences
16	Shri Prakash Javadekar	Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change + Minister of Information and Broadcasting
17	Shri Piyush Goyal	Minister of Railways + Minister of Commerce and Industry
18	Shri Dharmendra Pradhan	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas + Minister of Steel
19	Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Minister of Minority Affairs
20	Shri Pralhad Joshi	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs + Minister of Coal + Minister of Mines
21	Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey	Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
22	Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise
23	Shri Giriraj Singh	Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
24	Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Minister of Jal Shakti

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Sr. No	Minister	Portfolio
1	Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment
2	Rao Inderjit Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation + Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning
3	Shri Shripad Yesso Naik	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) + Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence
4	Dr. Jitendra Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region + Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office + Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions + Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy + Minister of State in the Department of Space
5	Shri Kiren Rijiju	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports + Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs
6	Shri Prahalad Singh Patel	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture + Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism
7	Shri Raj Kumar Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Power + Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy + Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
8	Shri Hardeep Singh Puri	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs + Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Civil Aviation + Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
9	Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Shipping + Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Ministers of State

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Some Notable Points:

* The new council of ministers comprises of 26 first-timers.

* The council of ministers includes six women, three of whom were sworn in as cabinet ministers.

* A total of 45 candidates from the Lok Sabha have got cabinet berths.

* The new cabinet has 10 members from Uttar Pradesh, followed by seven from Maharashtra and six from Bihar.

* The new Council of Ministers has representation from almost all the states, except Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura.

So, that, in a nutshell, is how the new Council of Ministers looks…

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