Ministers of India

The head of the Union government of India is Prime Minister. The executive powers lies in the hands of the Prime Minister while constitutional powers are with the President of India. In India there is Westminister form of democracy, so the prime minister is responsible for the governance of the country.

The day to day administration of the country is done by the prime minister. His council of minister like cabinet ministers, ministers of state with independent charges, deputy ministers and ministers of state working with cabinet help him in the governance process.
The Prime minister has many duties to perform and and immense power too. He forms the council of ministers by choosing people from his party and assigns different ministries to them. The council that PM forms is called cabinet. He presides over all the important meetings of the cabinet. The ministers are removed if their performance is not found up to the mark.

PM is responsible for making schemes and plans for the country and looking after the defense related issue of the country. He need to attend the judicial appointments, appointments of the State Administrative Tribunals, Election Commission, Central Administrative Tribunal and UPSCs. Apart from this, there are certain departments that are solely taken care by PM such as Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Personal and Public Grievances and Pensions.
There are three kinds of ministers in the council of ministers such as cabinet ministers, ministers of state with independent charges and ministers of state working with cabinet ministers.

Cabinet is the council of ministers that are responsible for managing the different ministries of the country. They are responsible for taking all the important decisions. Some of the prominent ministries are Defense , Industry, Finance, etc.

The main duties of the cabinet is to advice the council of ministers and attend all the cabinet ministers that is called either by the prime minister or any other cabinet minister to discuss on an issue. They are responsible to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha for all the schemes and policies.

After the cabinet ministers, comes the ministers of the state with independent charges. They are the part of council of ministers but not as important as cabinet ministers. After that comes the ministers of the state working with cabinet ministers. They work under the cabinet ministers and assist them to manage certain portfolios.

 

List of all ministers of india

 

S. No	Ministry	Cabinet Minister’s Name	State Minister’s Name	Chief Secretary’s Name
1	Ministry of Agriculture	Radha Mohan Singh	Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Ashish Bahuguna
2	Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers	Ananth Kumar	Nihalchand	Indrajit Pal
3	Ministry of Civil Aviation	Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati	GM Siddeshwara	Ashok Lavasa
4	Ministry of Coal	Piyush Goyal		S.K.Srivastava
5	Ministry of Commerce & Industry	Nirmala Sitharaman		Rajeev Kher
6	Ministry of Communications & Information Tech.	Ravi Shankar Prasad		Ram Sewak Sharma
7	Ministry of Consumer Aff., Food, & Public Dist.	Ram Vilas Paswan	Raosaheb Dadarao Danve Patil	Keshav Desiraju
8	Ministry of Corporate Affairs	Arun Jaitley	Nirmala Sitharaman	Naved Masood
9	Ministry of Culture	Shripad Yesso Naik		Ravindra Singh
10	Ministry of Defence	Arun Jaitley	Inderjit Singh Rao	Radha Krishna Mathur
11	Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region	General VK Singh		Uttam Kumar Sangma
12	Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation	Nitin Gadkari	Upendra Kushwaha	Pankaj Jain
13	Ministry of Earth Sciences	Jitendra Singh		Dr. Shailesh Nayak
14	Ministry of Environment & Forests	Prakash Javadekar		Dr. V. Rajagopalan
15	Ministry of External Affairs	Sushma Swaraj	General VK Singh	Sujatha Singh
16	Ministry of Finance	Arun Jaitley	Nirmala Sitharaman	Dr. Arvind Mayaram
17	Ministry of Food Processing Industries	Harsimrat Kaur Badal	Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Siraj Hussain
18	Ministry of Health & Family Welfare	Dr. Harsh Vardhan		V. K. Subburaj
19	Ministry of Heavy Industry & Public Enterprises	Anant Geete	Radhakrishnan P	Sutanu Behuria
20	Ministry of Home Affairs	Rajnath Singh	Kiren Rijiju	Anil Goswami
21	Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation	M Venkaiah Naidu		Ms.Anita Agnihotri
22	Ministry of Human Resource Development	Smriti Irani		Ashok Thakur
23	Ministry of Information & Broadcasting	Prakash Javadekar		Bimal Julka
24	Ministry of Labour & Employment	Narendra Singh Tomar	Vishnu Deo Sai	Gauri Kumar
25	Ministry of Law & Justice	Ravi Shankar Prasad		Anita Kaul
26	Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises	Kalraj Mishra		Madhav Lal
27	Ministry of Mines	Narendra Singh Tomar	Vishnu Deo Sai	Anup K. Pujari
28	Ministry of Minority Affairs	Dr Najma A Heptulla		Lalit K Panwar
29	Ministry of New & Renewable Energy	Piyush Goyal		Upendra Tripathy
30	Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs	Sushma Swaraj	General VK Singh	Prem Narain
31	Ministry of Panchayati Raj	Nitin Gadkari	Upendra Kushwaha	Vijay Laxmi Joshi
32	Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs	M Venkaiah Naidu	Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Prakash Javadekar	Afzal Amanullah
33	Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions	Jitendra Singh		Sanjay Kothari
34	Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas	Dharmendra Pradhan		Saurabh Chandra
35	Ministry of Power	Piyush Goyal		Pradeep Kumar Sinha
36	Ministry of Railways	D V Sadananda Gowda	Manoj Sinha	H K Jaggi
37	Ministry of Road Transport & Highways	Nitin Gadkari	Krishan Pal	Vijay Chhibber
38	Ministry of Rural Development	Nitin Gadkari	Upendra Kushwaha	Vandana Kumari Jena
39	Ministry of Science & Technology	Jitendra Singh		T. Ramasami
40	Ministry of Shipping	Nitin Gadkari	Krishan Pal	Vishwapati Trivedi
41	Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment	Thaawar Chand Gehlot	Sudarshan Bhagat	Sudhir Bhargava
42	Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation	Inderjit Singh Rao		T. C. A. Anant
43	Ministry of Steel	Narendra Singh Tomar	Vishnu Deo Sai	G Mohan Kumar
44	Ministry of Textiles	Santosh Kumar Gangwar		Zohra Chatterji
45	Ministry of Tourism	Shripad Yesso Naik		Parvez Dewan
46	Ministry of Tribal Affairs	Jual Oram	Mansukhbhai D. Vasava	Hrusikesh Panda
47	Ministry of Urban Development	M Venkaiah Naidu		Dr. Sudhir Krishna
48	Ministry of Water Resources	Uma Bharati	Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Alok Rawat
49	Ministry of Women & Child Development	Maneka Gandhi		Shankar Aggarwal
50	Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports	Sarbananda Sonowal		Ajit M. Sharan