India gets first [full-time] woman defence minister in Sitharaman; Prabhu gets Commerce

Nirmala Sitharaman is the first independent woman defence minister of India.

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The Narendra Modi led government went in for a major reshuffle today at 10.30 am when new ministers were added to his team while some were elevated to the Cabinet rank. The ministers were inducted at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in the presence of the new President, Ram Nath Kovind.

What is consdered to be a major change is the induction of three technocrats, Alphons Kannanthanam, a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, Hardeep Singh Puri, a former Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer and Satyapal Singh, a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer have taken oath as ministers.

Dharmendra Pradhan, who earlier had the independent charge of the Oil and Petroleum Ministry, was the first one to take oath as the new Skill Development Minister. Suresh Prabhu is the new Commerce and Industry Minister, while Nirmala Sitharaman has been elevated to the rank of a Cabinet minister and given the Defence portfolio. She is the first independent woman defence minister of India. Indira Gandhi had held additional defence charge between 1980 and 1982. The other ministers in the Cabinet now include, Piyush Goyal, Railways Minister and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Minority Affairs minister.

Rajyvardhan Rathore is the now the Minister (Independent charge) for Sports and Youth Affairs, KJ Alphons gets independent charge of Tourism and Mos for Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, RK Singh, the former home secretaryis now the Power Minister, Smriti Irani retains I & B portfolio.

Given below is the complete list of the ministers now under the Prime Minister as provided by the Press Information Bureau.

Narendra Modi

Prime Minister and also in-charge of:

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions;

Department of Atomic Energy;

Department of Space; and

All important policy issues; and

All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

CABINET MINISTERS

1.	Raj Nath Singh	Minister of Home Affairs.
2.	Sushma Swaraj	Minister of External Affairs.
3.	Arun Jaitley	Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs.
4.	Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Highways; Minister of Shipping; and Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
5.	Suresh Prabhu	Minister of Commerce and Industry.
6.	D.V. Sadananda Gowda	Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
7.	Uma Bharati	Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
8.	Ramvilas Paswan	Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
9.	Maneka Sanjay Gandhi	Minister of Women and Child Development.
10.	Ananthkumar	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers; and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.
11.	Ravi Shankar Prasad	Minister of Law and Justice; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
12.	Jagat Prakash Nadda	Minister of Health and Family Welfare.
13.	Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati	Minister of Civil Aviation.
14.	Anant Geete	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
15.	Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Minister of Food Processing Industries.
16.	Narendra Singh Tomar	Minister of Rural Development; Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Mines.
17.	Chaudhary Birender Singh	Minister of Steel.
18.	Jual Oram	Minister of Tribal Affairs.
19.	Radha Mohan Singh	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
20.	Thaawar Chand Gehlot	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
21.	Smriti Zubin Irani	Minister of Textiles; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
22.	Dr. Harsh Vardhan	Minister of Science and Technology; Minister of Earth Sciences; and Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
23.	Prakash Javadekar	Minister of Human Resource Development.
24.	Dharmendra Pradhan	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
25.	Piyush Goyal	Minister of Railways; and Minister of Coal.
26.	Nirmala Sitharaman	Minister of Defence.
27.	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Minister of Minority Affairs.

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

1.	Rao Inderjit Singh		Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
2.	Santosh Kumar Gangwar		Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
3.	Shripad Yesso Naik		Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH).
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; and Minister of State in the Department of Space.
5.	Dr. Mahesh Sharma		Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Culture; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
6.	Giriraj Singh		Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
7.	Manoj Sinha		Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Communications; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways.
8.	Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore		Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
9.		Raj Kumar Singh		Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Power; and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
10.		Hardeep Singh Puri		Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
11.		Alphons Kannanthanam		Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Tourism; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

MINISTERS OF STATE

1.	Vijay Goel	Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
2.	Radhakrishnan P.	Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping.
3.	S.S. Ahluwalia	Minister of State in the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
4.	Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi	Minister of State in the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
5.	Ramdas Athawale	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
6.	Vishnu Deo Sai	Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel.
7.	Ram Kripal Yadav	Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development.
8.	Hansraj Gangaram Ahir	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
9.	Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal.
10.	Rajen Gohain	Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways.
11.	General (Retd.) V. K. Singh	Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs.
12.	Parshottam Rupala	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
13.	Krishan Pal	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
14.	Jaswantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor	Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
15.	Shiv Pratap Shukla	Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance.
16.	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
17.	Sudarshan Bhagat	Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
18.	Upendra Kushwaha	Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
19.	Kiren Rijiju	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
20.	Dr. Virendra Kumar	Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs.
21.	Anantkumar Hegde	Minister of State in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.
22.	M. J. Akbar	Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs.
23.	Niranjan Jyoti	Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
24.	Y. S. Chowdary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Science and Technology; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
25.	Jayant Sinha	Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
26.	Babul Supriyo	Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
27.	Vijay Sampla	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
28.	Arjun Ram Meghwal	Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
29.	Ajay Tamta	Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles.
30.	Krishna Raj	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
31.	Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways; Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
32.	Anupriya Patel	Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
33.	C.R. Chaudhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
34.	P.P. Chaudhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
35.	Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre	Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.
36.	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
37.	Dr. Satya Pal Singh	Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

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India gets first [full-time] woman defence minister in Sitharaman; Prabhu gets Commerce

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