Central Cabinet - 2016

Cabinet Ministers

1. Narendra Modi – Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister 
2. Rajnath Singh – Home Affairs 
3. Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs 
4. Arun Jaitley – Finance, Corporate (Additional charge – Corporate Affairs, Information and Broadcasting)
5. Manohar Parrikar – Defence
6. M Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development, Housing, Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs 
7.  Nitin Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
8.  Suresh Prabhu – Railways
9.  Uma Bharati – Water resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
10.  Dr Najma Heptulla – Minority Affairs
11.  Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution 
12.  Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 
13.  Maneka Gandhi – Women and Child Development 
14.  Ananthkumar – Chemicals and Fertilizers 
15.  Ravi Shankar Prasad – Communications and Information Technology
16.  Ashok Gajapathi Raju – Civil Aviation 
17.  Anant Geete – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises 
18.  Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries 
19.  Narendra Singh Tomar – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment 
20.  Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs 
21.  Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture 
22.  Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment 
23.  Smriti Irani – Human Resource Development 
24.  JP Nadda – Health and Family Welfare
25.  Birender Singh – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
26.  DV Sadananda Gowda – Law and Justice
27.  Dr Harsh Vardhan – Science and Technology Earth Sciences

Ministers of State (Independent Charge) 

1.  General VK Singh – Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs 
2.  Inderjit Singh Rao – Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence 
3.  Santosh Gangwar – Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation 
4.  Shripad Naik – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge) 
5.  Dharmendra Pradhan – Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) 
6. Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Char Sarbananda Sonowal – ge) 
7. Prakash Javadekar – Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs 
8.  Piyush Goyal – Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) 
9.  Dr Jitendra Singh – Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space 
10.  Nirmala Sitharaman – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs
11.  Bandaru Dattatreya – Labour and Employment
12.  Rajiv Pratap Rudy – Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs
13.  Mahesh Sharma – Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge), Civil Aviation

Ministers of State 

1.  GM Siddeshwara – Civil Aviation 
2.  Manoj Sinha – Railways 
3.  Nihalchand – Chemicals and Fertilizers 
4.  Upendra Kushwaha – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation 
5.  Pon Radhakrishnan – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises 
6.  Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs 
7.  Krishan Pal – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping 
8.  Dr. Sanjeev Balyan – Agriculture, Food Processing Industries 
9.  Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava – Tribal Affairs 
10.  Raosaheb Danve – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution 
11.  Vishnu Deo Sai – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment 
12.  Sudarshan Bhagat – Rural Development
13.  Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi – Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs
14.   Ram Kripal Yadav –Drinking Water and Sanitation
15.  HP Chaudhary – Home Affairs
16.  Sanwar Lal Jat – Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
17.  Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya – Agriculture
18.  Giriraj Singh – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
19.  Hansraj Gangaram Ahir – Chemicals and Fertilizers
20.  Dr Ramshankar Katheria – Human Resource Development
21.  Jayant Sinha – Finance
22.  YS Chowdary – Science and Technology, Earth Science
23.  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore – Information and Broadcasting
24.  Babul Supriyo – Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
25.  Niranjan Jyoti – Food Processing Industries
26.  Vijay Sampla – Social Justice and Empowerment