Union Cabinet/ Council of Ministers, India (2014-19)
List of ministers in Narendra Modi's government
NEW DELHI : The portfolios of the new government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi were announced on Tuesday.
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Prime Minister
Narendra Modi: Personnel, public grievances and pensions, department of atomic energy, department of space, all important policy issues and other portfolios not allocated to any minister.
Cabinet ministers
Rajnath Singh: Home affairs
Sushma Swaraj: External affairs, overseas Indian affairs
Arun Jaitley: Finance, corporate affairs, defence
M Venkaiah Naidu: Urban development, housing and urban poverty alleviation, parliamentary affairs
Nitin Gadkari: Road transport and highways, shipping
D V Sadananda Gowda: Railways
Uma Bharati: Water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation
Najma A Heptulla: Minority affairs
Gopinathrao Munde: Rural development, panchayati raj, drinking water and sanitation
Ram Vilas Paswan: Consumer affairs, food and public distribution
Kalraj Mishra: Micro, small and medium enterprises
Maneka Gandhi: Women and child development
Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and fertilizers
Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and information technology, law and justice
Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil aviation
Anant Geete: Heavy industries and public enterprises
Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food processing industries
Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, steel, labour and employment
Jual Oram: Tribal affairs
Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture
Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social justice and empowerment
Smriti Irani: Human resource development
Harsh Vardhan: Health and family welfare
Ministers of state (independent charge)
V K Singh: Development of northeastern region (independent charge), external affairs, overseas Indian affairs
Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (independent charge), statistics and programme implementation (independent charge), defence
Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (independent charge), parliamentary affairs, water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation
Shripad Yesso Naik: Culture (independent charge), tourism (independent charge)
Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and natural gas (independent charge)
Sarbananda Sonowal: Skill development, entrepreneurship, youth affairs and sports (independent charge)
Prakash Javadekar: Information and broadcasting (independent charge), environment, forest and climate change (independent charge), parliamentary affairs
Piyush Goyal: Power (independent charge), coal (independent charge), new and renewable energy (independent charge)
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
Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and industry (independent charge), finance, corporate affairs
Ministers of state
G M Siddeshwara: Civil aviation
Manoj Sinha: Railways
Nihalchand: Chemicals and fertilizers
Upendra Kushwaha: Rural development, panchayati raj, drinking water and sanitation
P Radhakrishnan: Heavy industries and public enterprises
Kiren Rijiju: Home affairs
Krishan Pal: Road transport and highways, shipping
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture, food processing industries
Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal affairs
Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer affairs, food and public distribution
Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, steel, labour and employment
Sudarshan Bhagat: Social justice and empowerment
Background check: wealthy ministers, criminals
30% of ministers face criminal cases
The Times of India May 28 2014 TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Forty of the 44 ministers in the Modi government are crorepatis with the wealthiest being finance minister Arun Jaitley . About 30% of the ministers have criminal cases pending against them. The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) analysed self-sworn affidavits of 44 of the 46 ministers including PM Narendra Modi.
The details of two ministers --Prakash Javadekar and Nirmala Sitharaman -were not analysed as they are not members of either house.
Of the 44 ministers, 13 (30%) ministers have declared criminal cases against them while eight or 18% face serious criminal charges including cases related to attempt to murder, communal disharmony and electoral violations against themselves.
Cabinet minister Uma Bharati has the ignominy of a case related to attempt to murder pending against her besides another case of communal disharmony and election violations while rural development minister Gopinath Munde has a case of kidnapping pending against him.
An overwhelming 91% or 40 of the 44 ministers are crorepatis with the average asset of Rs 13.47 crore. Among the wealthiest are none other than finance minister Jaitley, followed by food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Gopinath Munde, Maneka Gandhi and Piyush Goyal.
The ministers with the lowest assets include Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava at Rs 65 lakh, Thaavarchand Gehlot with Rs 86 lakh and Sudarshan Bhagat with Rs 90 lakh worth of assets.
