List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2024 [Updated]

Cabinet Ministers of India 2024: The list of cabinet ministers of India has recently been updated as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet was reshuffled on 7 July 2021 for the first time since May 2019. Read the updated list of Ministers of India in the below table.

List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2024 – Updated

Recently, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi reshuffle his cabinet on July 7, 2021 for the first time since May 2019. There were some young and well-educated ministers were added to the list of ministers of India. In the latest reshuffle of ministers, a total of 43 MPs took oath as Ministers in Rashtrapati Bhavan including Narayan Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ajay Bhatt, Bhupender Yadav and many others.

Following are the updated list of Cabinet Ministers of India:

S. No.	Cabinet Ministers	Ministry Department
1.	Narendra Modi	Prime Minister Department of Atomic Energy Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Space All other important policy issues and other portfolios not allocated
2.	Rajnath Singh	Minister of Defence
3.	Amit Shah	Minister of Home Affairs Minister of Co-operation
4.	Nirmala Sitharaman	Minister of Corporate Affairs Minister of Finance
5.	Nitin Gadkari	Minister of Road Transport and Highways
6.	Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	Minister of External Affairs
7.	Narendra Singh Tomar	Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
8.	Dharmendra Pradhan	Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister of Education
9.	Piyush Goyal	Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister of Commerce and Industry Minister of Textiles
10.	Smriti Zubin Irani	Minister of Minority Affairs Minister of Women and Child Development
11.	Arjun Munda	Minister of Tribal Affairs
12.	Arjun Ram Meghwal	Minister of Law and Justice
13.	Virendra Kumar	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
14.	Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister of Health and Family Welfare
15.	Bhupender Yadav	Minister of Labour and Employment Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
16.	Mahendra Nath Pandey	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
17.	Pralhad Joshi	Minister of Coal Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of Mines
18.	Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Minister of Jal Shakti
19.	Narayan Tatu Rane	Minister of MSMEs
20.	Parshottam Rupala	Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries
21.	Ashwini Vaishnaw	Minister of Communications Minister of Railways Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
22.	Sarbananda Sonowal	Minister of AYUSH Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
23.	Giriraj Singh	Minister of Rural Development Minister of Panchayati Raj
24.	Jyotiraditya Scindia	Minister of Civil Aviation Minister of Steel
25.	Pashupati Kumar Paras	Minister of Food Processing Industries
26.	Raj Kumar Singh	Minister of New and Renewable Energy Minister of Power
27.	Hardeep Singh Puri	Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
28.	G. Kishan Reddy	Minister of Development of North Eastern Region Minister of Culture Minister of Tourism
29.	Anurag Thakur	Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Minister of Information and Broadcasting

Cabinet Ministers of India 2024

Cabinet Ministers in Government of India is a group of some ministers who are responsible for making important decisions and implementing policies all over the country. The Prime minister is head of cabinet minister of India. There are currently 28 Cabinet Ministers in India as part of the Union Council of Ministers. According to Article 75 of the Indian Constitution, the total number of ministers, including the Prime Minister also, cannot exceed 15% of the total members in the Lok Sabha. As there are 543 members in the current Lok Sabha, so the maximum number of ministers can go upto a maximum of 81 ministers only.

Generally Ministers of India are appointed by the president of India as per the advice of Prime Minister of India.These ministers plays a very crucial role in the implementation of various rules, schemes and in good governance.

Updated list of Ministers of India

Cabinet Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

The following is the list of who is in Independent Charge in Cabinet Ministers of State:

S. No.	Cabinet Ministers	Portfolio
1.	Shri Rao Inderjit Singh	Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Ministry of Planning Ministry of Corporate Affairs
2.	Dr. Jitendra Singh	Ministry of Science and Technology Ministry of Earth Sciences Prime Minister’s Office Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space
3.	Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal	Ministry of Law and Justice

Ministers of State 2024

The Following is the list of Ministers of State in India in 2024 as per the recent shuffle on July 7th of 2021.

Sr. no.	Minister	Portfolio
1.	Shri Shripad Yesso Naik	Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Ministry of Tourism
2.	Shri Faggansingh Kulaste	Ministry of Steel Ministry of Rural Development
3.	Shri Prahlad Singh Patel	Ministry of Jal Shakti Ministry of Food Processing Industries
4.	Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey	Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
5.	Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal	Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Ministry of Culture
6.	General (Retd.) V. K. Singh	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Ministry of Civil Aviation
7.	Shri Krishan Pal	Ministry of Power Ministry of Heavy Industries
8.	Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao	Ministry of Railways Ministry of Coal Ministry of Mines
9.	Shri Ramdas Athawale	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
10.	Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti	Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ministry of Rural Development
11.	Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan	Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
12.	Shri Nityanand Rai	Ministry of Home Affairs
13.	Shri Pankaj Chaudhary	Ministry of Finance
14.	Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel	Ministry of Commerce and Industry
15.	Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel	Ministry of Law and Justice
16.	Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar	Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
17.	Sushri Shobha Karandlaje	Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
18.	Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma	Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
19.	Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh	Ministry of Textiles Ministry of Railways
20.	Shri V. Muraleedharan	Ministry of External Affairs Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
21.	Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi	Ministry of External Affairs Ministry of Culture
22.	Shri Som Parkash	Ministry of Commerce and Industry
23.	Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta	Ministry of Tribal Affairs
24.	Shri Rameshwar Teli	Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry of Labour and Employment
25.	Shri Kailash Choudhary	Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
26.	Smt. Annapurna Devi	Ministry of Education
27.	Shri A. Narayanaswamy	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
28.	Shri Kaushal Kishore	Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
29.	Shri Ajay Bhatt	Ministry of Defence Ministry of Tourism
30.	Shri B. L. Verma	Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region Ministry of Cooperation
31.	Shri Ajay Kumar	Ministry of Home Affairs
32.	Shri Devusinh Chauhan	Ministry of Communications
33.	Shri Bhagwanth Khuba	Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
34.	Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil	Ministry of Panchayati Raj
35.	Sushri Pratima Bhoumik	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
36.	Dr. Subhas Sarkar	Ministry of Education
37.	Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad	Ministry of Finance
38.	Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh	Ministry of External Affairs Ministry of Education
39.	Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
40.	Shri Bishweshwar Tudu	Ministry of Tribal Affairs Ministry of Jal Shakti
41.	Shri Shantanu Thakur	Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
42.	Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai	Ministry of Women and Child Development Ministry of AYUSH
43.	Shri John Barla	Ministry of Minority Affairs
44.	Dr. L. Murugan	Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
45.	Shri Nisith Pramanik	Ministry of Home Affairs Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

The Cabinet Ministers of India are an integral part of the Union Council of Ministers which plays an important role in the growth of India. Ministers of India which acts as the central executive body of the Government of India. This council of ministers has the responsibility of making all important decisions on behalf of the government. Within this council, the Prime Minister presides over the council’s meetings and heads the Council of Ministers.

With this reshuffle, a total of 7 ministers of state were promoted including Anurag Thakur, G Kishan Reddy, Parshottam Rupala, Kiren Rijiju, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandaviya and Raj Kumar Singh. Below is the updates list of central ministers of India along with a list of state minister.

List of Sworn Ministers at the Rashtrapati Bhavan

The list of Ministers who were sworn in at the Rashtrapati Bhavan have been mentioned below:

1. Narayan Rane (Cabinet Minister)
2. Dr. Virendra Kumar (Cabinet Minister)
3. Sarbananda Sonowal (Cabinet Minister)
4. Ram Chandra Prasad (Cabinet Minister)
5. Jyotiraditya Scindia (Cabinet Minister)
6. Ashwini Vaishnav (Cabinet Minister)
7. Kiren Rijiju (Cabinet Minister)
8. Pashupati Kumar (Cabinet Minister)
9. Raj Kumar Singh (Cabinet Minister)
10. Hardeep Singh Puri (Cabinet Minister)
11. Bhupender Yadav (Cabinet Minister)
12. Mansukh Mandaviya (Cabinet Minister)
13. Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala (Cabinet Minister)
14. Anurag Thakur (Cabinet Minister)
15. G Kishan Reddy (Cabinet Minister)
16. Pankaj Choudhary (Minister of State)
17. Satya Pal Singh Baghel (Minister of State)
18. Anupriya Singh Patel (Minister of State)
19. Rajeev Chandrasekhar (Minister of State)
20. Shobha Karandlaje (Minister of State)
21. Darshana Vikram Jardosh (Minister of State)
22. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma (Minister of State)
23. Meenakshi Lekhi (Minister of State)
24. A Narayanaswamy (Minister of State)
25. Annapurna Devi (Minister of State)
26. Ajay Bhatt (Minister of State)
27. Kaushal Kishore (Minister of State)
28. BL Verma (Minister of State)
29. Chauhan Devusinh (Minister of State)
30. Ajay Kumar (Minister of State)
31. Kapil Moreshwar Patil (Minister of State)
32. Bhagwanth Khuba (Minister of State)
33. Pratima Bhoumik (Minister of State)
34. Subhas Sarkar (Minister of State)
35. Bhagwat K.Karad (Minister of State)
36. Rajkumar R. Singh (Minister of State)
37. Dr. Bharati Pawar (Minister of State)
38. Shantanu Thakur (Minister of State)
39. Bishweswar Tudu (Minister of State)
40. John Barla (Minister of State)
41. Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai (Minister of State)
42. Nisith Pramanik (Minister of State)
43. Dr L Murugan (Minister of State)

List of Cabinet Ministers Who Resigned in 2021

Before the cabinet was shuffled by the Prime minister on 7th July, there were many ministers who resigned from their posts. Also, a new “Ministry of Cooperation” was created for helping in the cooperative movement in the country.

The following is the list of ministers who have resigned from their posts in 2021:

1. Harsh Vardhan
2. Ashwini Kumar Choubey
3. Babul Supriyo
4. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
5. Santosh Gangwar
6. Debasree Chaudhuri
7. Sanjay Dhotre
8. Rattan Lal Kataria
9. Thawar Chand Gehlot
10. Sadananda Gowda
11. Prakash Javadekar
12. Ravi Shankar Prasad

New Ministers in PM Modi’s New Cabinet

With the intention of doing well in the upcoming elections in the states, PM Narendra Modi reshuffle his Cabinet of ministers. As per official sources, the Modi administration has the goal of ensuring delivery to the bottom most layer of the society for which the government needed new and young ministers.

Cabinet Ministers of India 2024: Representation of Communities

The cabinet that has been formed recently by the Prime Minister shows diversity in terms of regional, geographical, and demographic features. The emphasis on representation of communities is shown by various factors, including individuals’ experiences, gender, and representation within the community. It must be noted that the current cabinet has a high level of representation for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), and Other Backward Classes (OBCs). This goal is in accordance with Prime Minister Modi’s guiding principle of “Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas,” which is important for the development of all people in the society.

Leader of House in Rajya Sabha

In Rajya Sabha, Piyush Goyal was named as the Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha after succeeding BJP leader Thawar Chand Gehlot who was recently appointed as Governor of Karnataka state.

What Does the ADR Report Say About New Cabinet Ministers?

The Association for Democratic Reforms or ADR report had given a detailed report on new cabinet ministers.

1. Criminal Cases against Ministers:

A total of 33 Ministers have criminal cases filed against them. Among these 33 ministers, 24 of them have serious criminal cases instituted against them for example attempt to murder, murder and also robbery.

2. Millionaire Cabinet Ministers:

90% of the new Cabinet members at least are millionaires as per the report of ADR. This simply means that out of total 78 Ministers, 70 ministers have declared their total assets which amounts to over Rs. 1 crore.

3. Low Assets Ministers:

Cabinet Ministers having least assets are: Pratima Bhoumik (Rs 6 lakh approx.), John Barla (Rs 14 lakh approx.), Kailash Choudhary (Rs 24 lakh approx.), V Muraleedharan (Rs 27 lakh approx.) and Bishweshwar Tudu (Rs 27 lakh approx.).

4. High Assets Ministers:

Total 4 Ministers have declared their assets to be worth more than Rs. 50 crores.

They include Jyotiraditya Scindia (Rs 379 crores), Piyush Goyal (Rs 95 crores), Shri Narayan Rane (Rs 87 crores), as well as Mr. Rajeev Chandrasekhar (Rs 64 crores).

5. Educational Qualification:

Among the total of 78 Ministers, 9 of them have a professional doctorate, 17 of the Ministers are graduates as well as professional graduates, only 2 Ministers have passed their Standard 8 exams, 3 of the Ministers have passed their Standard 10 exams and 7 of the Ministers have passed Standard 12 exams.

List of Cabinet Ministers of India: Important Points

Some other insights into the cabinet ministers of India 2024 has been provided below for better understanding:

• Rajnath Singh, who has been assigned the significant responsibility of serving as the Minister of Defence, has the second-highest post within the cabinet structure, ranking below the Prime Minister.

• The composition of the cabinet has exhibited variations over time, consistently encompassing a membership range of 20 to 30 individuals. This difference is consistent with the current government’s policies and objectives.

• The distribution of posts to the ministers is at discretion of the Prime Minister. Posts are customised to conform with the objectives and policies of the government.

• On the occasion of August 15, 1947, India celebrated its independence from British colonial rule. The establishment of the first cabinet of ministers was also seen during this event. Under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, who served as the first Prime Minister, the government consisted of 14 ministers who played important roles in establishing the path for our nation.

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• Council of Ministers – Definition, Categories, Examples, FAQs
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• Prime Minister: Appointment, Powers, and Functions
• List of Presidents & Prime Ministers Around the World

List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2024 – FAQs

How Many Ministers are there in the Modi Cabinet?

Narendra Modi’s Cabinet comprises 29 Cabinet Ministers including himself, 45 Ministers of State, and 3 Ministers of State (Independent Charge).

Who is the Union Cabinet Minister of Culture and Tourism?

Shri G Kishan Reddy

Who is the Agriculture Minister of India?

The agriculture ministry is headed by Narendra Singh Tomar.

Who is the Minister of Health?

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is under Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya. He is also responsible for handling the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

Which Ministries are Held by Prime Minister?

The Prime Minister is the Union Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, and Department of Space as well as all important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.

In How Many Categories the Council of Ministers are Divided?

The Council of Ministers are divided into four categories of Ministers:

1. Cabinet Minister,
2. Minister of State (Independent Charge),
3. Minister of State &
4. Deputy Minister.