New Delhi: The prime minister, Narendra Modi, Friday wrote a new history by making Nirmala Sitharaman the finance minister. She is the first woman to hold this portfolio as cabinet minister in the independent India. Sitharaman, in fact, was the first woman to hold the defence portfolio in the Modi’s first cabinet.
The prime minister has allotted portfolios to his ministers. Ranjnath is the new defence minister while Amit Shah is the home minister and Nitin Gadkari has been given road transport & highways along with MSME.
Here is the list of ministers and their portfolio:
8.Shri Parshottam Rupala Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. 9. Shri Ramdas Athawale Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. 10. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development. 11. Shri Babul Supriyo Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. 12. Shri Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. 13. Shri Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development; Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. 14. Shri Anurag Singh Thakur Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. 15. Shri Angadi Suresh Channabasappa Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways. 16. Shri Nityanand Rai Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs. 17. Shri Rattan Lal Kataria Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. 18. Shri V. Muraleedharan Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. 19. Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. 20. Shri Som Parkash Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. 21. Shri Rameswar Teli Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries. 22. Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. 23. Shri Kailash Choudhary Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. 24. Sushri Debasree Chaudhuri Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development.