Who are the cabinet ministers of India?

The Cabinet Ministers of India are in charge of carrying out the national administrative responsibilities. They must also advise the President of India on a number of important issues. On the Prime Minister of India's recommendation, they are appointed by the President of India.

How many cabinet ministers are there in India in 2024?

In the 2024 Council of Ministers, there are 30 Cabinet Ministers, 5 Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and 36 Ministers of State.

Cabinet Ministers of India 2024 in Modi 3.0, Updated List

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Each Cabinet Minister oversees policy formulation, implementation, and governance within their respective domains. Read this article to get an Updated List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2024 in Modi 3.0 government formation on 9th June 2024. Modi. PM Modi took oath For the Third Time along with the 71 Ministers including Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State (Independent Charge) and Ministers of State and their Portfolio was announced on 10th June 2024.

The Cabinet Ministers of India constitute the key decision-making body within the government, led by the Prime Minister. Comprising senior members of the ruling party or coalition, these ministers head various ministries responsible for specific sectors such as finance, defence, and external affairs. Check here PM Modi 3.0 Oath Ceremony Highlights in detail for your exams.

List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2024 and their Portfolio

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to take the oath for his third consecutive term, leading a coalition government after a notable yet reduced performance in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. With the BJP’s seat tally falling from 303 to 240, the party has had to form alliances to secure the majority needed to govern. This cabinet reflects a blend of experienced leaders and new faces across various states and coalition partners. Check here List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2024 and their Portfolio in detail.

Prime Minister of India

Shri Narendra Modi

Prime Minister and also in-charge of:

Ministry of 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.

CABINET MINISTERS
1.	Shri Raj Nath Singh	Minister of Defence.
2.	Shri Amit Shah	Minister of Home Affairs; and Minister of Cooperation.
3.	Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Highways.
4.	Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda	Minister of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
5.	Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; and Minister of Rural Development.
6.	Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman	Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs.
7.	Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	Minister of External Affairs.
8.	Shri Manohar Lal	Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs; and Minister of Power.
9.	Shri H. D. Kumaraswamy	Minister of Heavy Industries; and Minister of Steel.
10.	Shri Piyush Goyal	Minister of Commerce and Industry.
11.	Shri Dharmendra Pradhan	Minister of Education.
12.	Shri Jitan Ram Manjhi	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
13.	Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh	Minister of Panchayati Raj; and Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.
14.	Shri Sarbananda Sonowal	Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.
15.	Dr. Virendra Kumar	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
16.	Shri Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu	Minister of Civil Aviation.
17.	Shri Pralhad Joshi	Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of New and Renewable Energy.
18.	Shri Jual Oram	Minister of Tribal Affairs.
19.	Shri Giriraj Singh	Minister of Textiles.
20.	Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw	Minister of Railways; Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
21.	Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia	Minister of Communications; and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region.
22.	Shri Bhupender Yadav	Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
23.	Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Minister of Culture; and Minister of Tourism.
24.	Smt. Annpurna Devi	Minister of Women and Child Development
25.	Shri Kiren Rijiju	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of Minority Affairs.
26.	Shri Hardeep Singh Puri	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
27.	Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya	Minister of Labour and Employment; and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports.
28.	Shri G. Kishan Reddy	Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines.
29.	Shri Chirag Paswan	Minister of Food Processing Industries.
30.	Shri C R Patil	Minister of Jal Shakti.

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)
1.	Rao Inderjit Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture.
2.	Dr. Jitendra Singh	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Science and Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences; Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State in the Department of Space.
3.	Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Law and Justice; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
4.	Shri Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayush; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
5.	Shri Jayant Chaudhary	Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education.

MINISTERS OF STATE
1.	Shri Jitin Prasada	Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
2.	Shri Shripad Yesso Naik	Minister of State in the Ministry of Power; and Minister of State in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
3.	Shri Pankaj Chaudhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance.
4.	Shri Krishan Pal	Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation.
5.	Shri Ramdas Athawale	Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
6.	Shri Ram Nath Thakur	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
7.	Shri Nityanand Rai	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
8.	Smt. Anupriya Patel	Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
9.	Shri V. Somanna	Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways.
10.	Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani	Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications.
11.	Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel	Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
12.	Sushri Shobha Karandlaje	Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
13.	Shri Kirtivardhan Singh	Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs.
14.	Shri B. L. Verma	Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
15.	Shri Shantanu Thakur	Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.
16.	Shri Suresh Gopi	Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism.
17.	Dr. L. Murugan	Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
18.	Shri Ajay Tamta	Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
19.	Shri Bandi Sanjay Kumar	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
20.	Shri Kamlesh Paswan	Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development.
21.	Shri Bhagirath Choudhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
22.	Shri Satish Chandra Dubey	Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines.
23.	Shri Sanjay Seth	Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.
24.	Shri Ravneet Singh	Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways.
25.	Shri Durgadas Uikey	Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
26.	Smt. Raksha Nikhil Khadse	Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
27.	Shri Sukanta Majumdar	Minister of State in the Ministry of Education; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region.
28.	Smt. Savitri Thakur	Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
29.	Shri Tokhan Sahu	Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
30.	Shri Raj Bhushan Choudhary	Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti.
31.	Shri Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma	Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel.
32.	Shri Harsh Malhotra	Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
33.	Smt. Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya	Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
34.	Shri Murlidhar Mohol	Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
35.	Shri George Kurian	Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.
36.	Shri Pabitra Margherita	Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles.

Full List of Ministers in NDA Government 3.0

You can check here the complete details about members of the Union Council of Ministers like their political party name, Parliamentary Constituency and states below in the table.

SN	Name	Party Name	State	Parliamentary Constituency
	Shri Narendra Modi	BJP	Uttar Pradesh	Varanasi
Cabinet Ministers
1.	Amit Shah	BJP	Gujarat	Gandhinagar
2	Rajnath Singh	BJP	Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow
3	JP Nadda	BJP	Gujarat	Rajya Sabha
4	Nitin Gadkari	BJP	Maharashtra	Nagpur
5	Nirmala Sitharaman	BJP	Karnataka	Rajya Sabha
6	Piyush Goyal	BJP	Maharashtra	Mumbai North
7	Hardeep Singh Puri	BJP	Punjab	Rajya Sabha
8	Pralhad Joshi	BJP	Karnataka	Dharwad
9	Giriraj Singh	BJP	Bihar	Begusarai
10	Bhupender Yadav	BJP	Rajasthan	Rajya Sabha
11	Annapurna Devi	BJP	Jharkhand	Kodarma
12	H D Kumaraswamy	JD (S)	Karnataka	Mandya
13	Sarbananda Sonowal	BJP	Assam	Dibrugarh
14	Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu	TDP	Andhra Pradesh	Srikakulam
15	Manohar Lal Khattar	BJP	Haryana	Karnal
16	Kiren Rijiju	BJP	Arunachal Pradesh	Arunachal West
17	Jayant Choudhary	RLD	Uttar Pradesh	Rajya Sabha
18	S Jaishankar	BJP	Gujarat	Rajya Sabha
19	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	BJP	Rajasthan	JODHPUR
20	Shivraj Singh Chauhan	BJP	Madhya Pradesh	Vidisha
21	Ashwini Vaishnaw	BJP	Odisha	Rajya Sabha
22	Rajiv Ranjan Singh (Lalan Singh)	JU(U)	Bihar	Munger
23	Jyotiraditya Scindia	BJP	Madhya Pradesh	Guna
24	Chirag Paswan	LJP(RV)	Bihar	Hajipur
25	Jitan Ram Manjhi	HAM	Bihar	Gaya
26	Dharmendra Pradhan	BJP	Odisha	Sambalpur
27	Mansukh Mandaviya	BJP	Gujarat	Porbandar
28	C R Patil	BJP	Gujarat	Navsari
29	G Kishan Reddy	BJP	Telangana	Secunderabad
30	Dr. Virendra Kumar	BJP	Madhya Pradesh	TIKAMGARH
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
1	Rao Inderjeet Singh	BJP	Haryana	Gurugram
2	Dr. Jitendra Singh	BJP	Jammu and Kashmir	Udhampur
3	Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal	BJP	Rajasthan	Bikaner
4	Shri Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao	Shiv Sena	Maharashtra	Buldhana
5	Shri Jayant Chaudhary	RLD	Uttar Pradesh
Ministers of State
1	Jitin Prasada	BJP	Uttar Pradesh	Pilibhit
2	Shripad Yesso Naik	BJP	Goa	North Goa
3	Pankaj Chaudhary	BJP	Uttar Pradesh	Maharajganj
4	Krishan Pal	BJP	Haryana	Faridabad
5	Ramdas Athawale	RPI(A)	Maharashtra	Rajya Sabha
6	Ramnath Thakur	JD (U)	Bihar	Rajya Sabha MP
7	Nityanand Rai	BJP	Bihar	Ujiarpur
8	Anupriya Patel	Apna Dal (Soneylal)	Uttar Pradesh	Mirzapur
9	V. Somanna	BJP	Karnataka	Tumkur
10	Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani	TDP	Andhra Pradesh	Guntur
11	S. P. Singh Baghel	BJP	Uttar Pradesh	Agra
12	Sobha Karandlaje	BJP	Karnataka	Bangalore North
13	Kirtivardhan Singh	BJP	Uttar Pradesh	Gonda
14	B. L. Verma	BJP	Uttar Pradesh
15	Shantanu Thakur	BJP	West Bengal	Bangaon
16	Suresh Gopi	BJP	Kerala	Thrissur
17	Dr. L. Murugan	BJP	Tamilnadu
18	Ajay Tamta	BJP	Uttarakhand	Almora
19	Bandi Sanjay Kumar	BJP	Telangana	Karimnagar
20	Kamlesh Paswan	BJP	Uttar Pradesh	Bansgaon
21	Bhagirath Choudhary	BJP	Rajasthan	AJMER
22	Satish Chandra Dubey	BJP	Bihar	Betia
23	Sanjay Seth	BJP	Jharkhand	Ranchi
24	Ravneet Singh Bittu	BJP	Punjab	Ludhiana
25	Durgadas Uikey	BJP	Madhya Pradesh	Betul
26	Raksha Nikhil Khadse	BJP	Maharashtra	Raver
27	Sukanta Majumdar	BJP	West Bengal	Balurghat
28	Savitri Thakur	BJP	Madhya Pradesh	Dhar
29	Tokhan Sahu	BJP	Chhattisgarh	Bilaspur
30	Raj Bhushan Choudhary	BJP	Bihar	Muzaffarpur
31	Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma	BJP	Andhra Pradesh	Narsapuram
32	Harsh Malhotra	BJP	Delhi	East Delhi
33	Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya	BJP	Gujarat	Bhavnagar
34	Murlidhar Mohol	BJP	Maharashtra	Pune
35	George Kurian	BJP	Kerala
36	Pabitra Margherita	BJP	Assam	Rajya Sabha

Cabinet Ministers of India

The Cabinet Ministers of India is a subgroup of the Union Council of Ministers. The Union Council of Ministers is the principal executive body of the Government of India. Cabinet Ministers of India are in charge of making important decisions for the executive branch. The Prime Minister of India chairs the council.

Cabinet Ministers of India is the supreme executive body of the Government of India which holds the most significant and powerful positions and ministries. Cabinet Ministers of India are appointed from the winning political party’ Member of Parliament and assigned different portfolios.

The Union Council of Ministers is the principal executive organ of the Government of India, which functions as the senior decision-making body of the executive branch. It is chaired by the prime minister and consists of the heads of each of the executive government ministries.

Role of Cabinet Ministers of India

The Cabinet Ministers of India play a crucial role in the functioning of the government. Here’s a breakdown of their key responsibilities:

Policy formulation and decision-making

Cabinet Ministers head individual ministries and are responsible for formulating policies within their respective areas.
They conduct research, analyze data, and consult with experts to develop policies that address national priorities and challenges.
Collectively, the Cabinet makes key decisions on various issues, including economic policy, foreign affairs, defense, social welfare, and infrastructure development.

Leading government departments

Each Cabinet Minister oversees a specific ministry and its various departments, agencies, and institutions.
They provide administrative guidance, ensure efficient functioning, and monitor performance of these entities.
This involves setting budget priorities, allocating resources, and ensuring proper implementation of government policies and programs.

Public representation and communication

Cabinet Ministers act as the public face of the government in their respective areas.
They answer questions in Parliament, address the media, and engage with stakeholder groups to explain government policies and decisions.
They also play a crucial role in communicating with the public and addressing their concerns and grievances.

Legislative oversight and accountability

Cabinet Ministers are responsible for introducing and defending government bills in Parliament.
They participate in parliamentary debates and answer questions from legislators on their respective ministries’ work.
This ensures transparency and accountability to the legislative branch and the public.

International relations and diplomacy

Certain Cabinet Ministers, like the Minister of External Affairs, play a key role in India’s foreign relations.
They represent India in international forums, negotiate agreements with other countries, and promote India’s interests in the global arena.
This requires strong diplomatic skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with foreign counterparts.