By IANS,
New Delhi: The following is the list of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s new council of ministers that has 34 cabinet rank ministers, six ministers of state for independent charge and 37 ministers of state.
The new council of 78 ministers, including the prime ministers, has seven women.
Cabinet ministers
01. Pranab Mukherjee – Finance
02. Sharad Pawar – Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
03. A.K. Antony – Defence
04. P. Chidambaram – Home Affairs
05. Mamata Banerjee – Railways
06. S.M. Krishna – External Affairs
07. Ghulam Nabi Azad – Health and Family Welfare
08. Sushil Kumar Shinde – Power
09. M. Veerappa Moily – Law and Justice
10. S. Jaipal Reddy – Petroleum and Natural Gas
11. Kamal Nath – Urban Development
12. Vayalar Ravi -Overseas Indian Affairs and Civil Aviation
13. Murli Deora – Corporate Affairs
14. Kapil Sibal – Human Resource Development and Communications and Information Technology
15. Ambika Soni – Information and Broadcasting
16. B.K. Handique – Development of North Eastern Region
17. Anand Sharma -Commerce and Industry
18. Virbhadra Singh – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
19. Vilasrao Deshmukh – Rural Development and Panchayati Raj
20. C.P. Joshi – Road Transport and Highways
21. Kumari Selja – Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Culture
22. Subodh Kant Sahay – Tourism
23. M.S. Gill – Statistics and Programme Implementation
24. G.K. Vasan – Shipping
25. Dayanidhi Maran – Textiles
26. Farooq Abdullah – New and Renewable Energy
27. Mallikarjun Kharge – Labour and Employment
28. Pawan K. Bansal – Parliamentary Affairs, Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
29. Mukul Wasnik – Social Justice and Empowerment
30. Kantilal Bhuria – Tribal Affairs
31. M.K. Alagiri – Chemicals and Fertilizers
32. Praful Patel – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
33. Sriprakash Jaiswal – Coal
34. Salman Khursheed – Water Resources, Minority Affairs
Ministers of State with Independent charge
01. Ajay Maken- Youth Affairs and Sports
02. Beni Prasad Verma – Steel
03. K.V. Thomas – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
04. Dinsha J. Patel – Mines
05. Krishna Tirath – Women and Child Development
06. Jairam Ramesh – Environment and Forests
Ministers of State
01. Srikant Jena – Chemicals and Fertilizers
02. E. Ahamed – External Affairs
03. Mullappally Ramachandran – Home Affairs
04. V. Narayanasamy – Parliamentary Affairs, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Prime Minister’s Office
05. Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia – Commerce and Industry
06. D. Purandeswari – Human Resource Development
07. K.H. Muniappa – Railways
08. Panabaka Lakshmi – Textiles
09. Namo Narain Meena – Finance
10. M.M. Pallam Raju – Defence
11. Saugata Ray – Urban Development
12. S.S. Palanimanickam – Finance
13. Jitin Prasada – Road Transport and Highways
14. A. Sai Prathap – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
15. Preneet Kaur – External Affairs
16. Gurudas Kamat – Home Affairs
17. Harish Rawat – Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
18. Bharatsinh Solanki – Railways
19. Mahadev S. Khandela – Tribal Affairs
20. Dinesh Trivedi – Health and Family Welfare
21. Sisir Adhikari – Rural Development
22. Sultan Ahmed – Tourism
23. Mukul Roy – Shipping
24. Choudhury Mohan Jatua -Information and Broadcasting
25. D. Napoleon – Social Justice and Empowerment
26. Jagathrakshakan – Information and Broadcasting
27. S. Gandhiselvan – Health and Family Welfare
28. Tusharbhai Chaudhary – Road Transport and Highways
29. Sachin Pilot – Communications and Information Technology
30. Arun Yadav – Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
31. Prateek Prakashbapu Patil – Coal
32. R.P.N. Singh – Petroleum and Natural Gas and Corporate Affairs
33. Vincent Pala – Water Resources and Minority Affairs
34. Pradeep Jain – Rural Development
35. Agatha Sangma – Rural Development
36. Ashwani Kumar – Planning, Parliamentary Affairs, Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
37. C. Venugopal – Power