Narendra Modi’s First Day as PM with his new-look team

New Delhi: Narendra Mod sworn in as India’s 15th prime minister at the Rashtrapati Bhavan forecourt.

An unprecedented 4,000 guests, including heads of the government of eight countries (of which seven are from SAARC), all 777 MPs of both Houses, the outgoing PM and his council of ministers, all governors, CMs, ambassadors and other constitutional authorities like the chief justice of India were present at the event.

List of Ministers and their portfolios: Cabinet Ministers

• Rajnath Singh – Home Affairs
• Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
• Arun Jaitley – Finance, Corporate Affairs, additional charge of Defence
• M Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development, Housing, Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
• Nitin Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
•  DV Sadananda Gowda – Railways
•   Uma Bharati – Water resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
• Dr Najma Heptulla – Minority Affairs
• Gopinath Munde – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
• Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
• Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
• Maneka Gandhi – Women and Child Development
• Ananthkumar – Chemicals and Fertilizers
• Ravi Shankar Prasad – Communications & Information Technology Law and Justice
• Ashok Gajapathi Raju – 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
•  Dr Harsh Vardhan – Health and Family Welfare

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

• General VK Singh – Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
•  Inderjit Singh Rao – Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence
• Santosh Gangwar – Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
• Shripad 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)
•  Dr Jitendra Singh – Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
•  Nirmala Sitharaman – Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs

  Ministers of State

• GM Siddeshwara – Civil Aviation
• Manoj Sinha – Railways
•  Nihalchand – Chemicals and Fertilizers
• Upendra Kushwaha – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
• Pon Radhakrishnan – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
• Kiren Rijiju – Home Affairs
• Krishan Pal – Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
•  Dr. Sanjeev Balyan – Agriculture, Food Processing Industries
• Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava – Tribal Affairs
• Raosaheb Danve – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
•  Vishnu Deo Sai – Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
• Sudarshan Bhagat – Social Justice and Empowerment

Bureau Report