Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expanded his Cabinet on Tuesday, by appointing 19 new ministers.
Modi said this would strengthen his Cabinet's ability to deliver on promises made in this year's budget. The Cabinet now consists of 80-members from 45 when Modi came to power two years ago.
The oath taking ceremony was held in the Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday morning . Firstly Prakash Javdekar who was elevated to Cabinet rank took the pledge.The new Ministers of State sworn in after him.
Five ministers resigned to pave the way for the new faces. They are Nihalchand, Ram Shankar Katheria, Sanwar Lal Jat, Manuskhbhai D Vasva and M K Kundariya.
Here is the List of 19 Ministers who joined:
| Cabinet Ministers | Portfolios |
| Rajnath Singh | Home Affairs |
| Sushma Swaraj | External Affairs |
| Arun Jaitley | Finance and Corporate Affairs |
| M. Venkaiah Naidu | Information & Broadcasting |
| Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation | |
| Nitin Jairam Gadkari | Road Transport and Highways |
| Shipping | |
| Manohar Parrikar | Defence |
| Suresh Prabhu | Railways |
| D. V. Sadananda Gowda | Statistics & Programme Implementation |
| Uma Bharati | Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation |
| Dr. Najma A. Heptulla | Minority Affairs |
| Ramvilas Paswan | Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution |
| Kalraj Mishra | Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises |
| Maneka Sanjay Gandhi | Women & Child Development |
| Ananthkumar | Parliamentary Affairs |
| Chemicals & Fertilisers | |
| Ravi Shankar Prasad | Law & Justice |
| Electronics & Information Technology | |
| Jagat Prakash Nadda | Health & Family Welfare |
| Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati | Civil Aviation |
| Anant Geete | Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises |
| Harsimrat Kaur Badal | Food Processing Industries |
| Narendra Singh Tomar | Rural Development, |
| Panchayati Raj | |
| Drinking Water & Sanitation | |
| Chaudhary Birender Singh | Steel |
| Jual Oram | Tribal Affairs |
| Radha Mohan Singh | Agriculture & Farmers Welfare |
| Thaawar Chand Gehlot | Social Justice and Empowerment |
| Smriti Zubin Irani | Textiles |
| Dr. Harsh Vardhan | Science & Technology, Earth Sciences |
| Prakash Javadekar | Human Resource Development |
| Ministers of State | Portfolios |
| Rao Inderjit Singh | Planning (Independent Charge) |
| Urban Development | |
| Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation | |
| Bandaru Dattatreya | Labour & Employment (Independent Charge) |
| Rajiv Pratap Rudy | Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge) |
| Vijay Goel | Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge) |
| Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation | |
| Shripad Yesso Naik | AAYUSH (Independent Charge) |
| Dharmendra Pradhan | Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) |
| Piyush Goyal | Power (Independent Charge) |
| Coal (Independent Charge) | |
| New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) | |
| Mines (Independent Charge) | |
| Dr. Jitendra Singh | Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge) |
| Prime Minister’s Office | |
| Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions | |
| Department of Atomic Energy | |
| Department of Space | |
| Nirmala Sitharaman | Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge) |
| Dr. Mahesh Sharma | Culture (Independent Charge) |
| Tourism (Independent Charge) | |
| Manoj Sinha | Communications (Independent Charge) |
| Railways | |
| Anil Madhav Dave | Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) |
| General V. K. Singh | External Affairs |
| Santosh Kumar Gangwar | Finance |
| Faggan Singh Kulaste | Health & Family Welfare |
| Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi | Minority Affairs |
| Parliamentary Affairs | |
| S. S. Ahluwalia | Agriculture & Farmers Welfare |
| Parliamentary Affairs | |
| Ramdas Athawale | Social Justice & Empowerment |
| Ram Kripal Yadav | Rural Development |
| Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary | Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises |
| Giriraj Singh | Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises |
| Hansraj Gangaram Ahir | Home Affairs |
| G. M. Siddeshwara | Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises |
| Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi | Drinking Water & Sanitation |
| Rajen Gohain | Railways |
| Parshottam Rupala | Agriculture & Farmers Welfare |
| Panchayati Raj | |
| M. J. Akbar | External Affairs |
| Upendra Kushwaha | Human Resources Development |
| Radhakrishnan P | Road Transport & Highways |
| Shipping | |
| Kiren Rijiju | Home Affairs |
| Krishan Pal | Social Justice & Empowerment |
| Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor | Tribal Affairs |
| Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan | Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation |
| Vishnu Deo Sai | Steel |
| Sudarshan Bhagat | Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
| Y. S. Chowdary | Science & Technology |
| Earth Science | |
| Jayant Sinha | Civil Aviation |
| Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore | Information & Broadcasting |
| Babul Supriyo | Urban Development |
| Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation | |
| Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti | Food Processing Industries |
| Vijay Sampla | Social Justice & Empowerment |
| Arjun Ram Meghwal | Finance |
| Corporate Affairs | |
| Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey | Human Resource Development |
| Ajay Tamta | Textiles |
| Krishna Raj | Women & Child Development |
| Mansukh L. Mandaviya | Road Transport & Highways, |
| Shipping, | |
| Chemicals & Fertilizers | |
| Anupriya Patel | Health & Family Welfare |
| C. R. Chaudhary | Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution |
| P. P. Chaudhary | Law & Justice |
| Electronics & Information Technology | |
| Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre | Defence |
Prime Minister held a Union Cabinet meet on Tuesday with all the new ministers in which he said, “You have a few hours to celebrate, then get down to work.”
Modi asked the newly sworn-in ministers to work hard with honesty and dedication.
Modi discussed about the cabinet reshuffle with senior party colleagues including BJP chief Amit Shah, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
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