Cabinet, Ministries, And Agencies: Secretaries

Introduction:

What are cabinets?

The cabinets are a group of strong state authorities, usually made up of the executive branch’s most powerful individuals. Members of the cabinet as well as secretary are the titles given to representatives of a cabinet. A cabinet’s role differs depending on the country: in some, it serves as a collective judgment body with collective accountability, whereas in others, it serves as just a strictly advisory committee or an aiding agency for a judgment head of state or government. Cabinets are often in charge of the administration’s day-to-day operations as well as reaction to unexpected occurrences, meanwhile the legislative and executive branches operate at a slower pace, in conferences that follow extensive processes.

What are Ministries?

The first executive body in the structure of administrations that manages a particular aspect of public management uses the identities called ministry or department, as well as the rarely called secretariat, office, or directorate.

The above organizations are typically led by a political leaders who are  participants of a panel of higher ranked government representatives who may be using a designations such as minister, secretary, or commissioner, and thus are typically staffed with quasi civil servants who maintain its operational processes; they could also supervise other government government agencies as part of a coordinated political holdings.

Ministries and departments may vary in number and nature depending on the government. These names may have different meanings in different nations.

What are Agencies?

The government or the state agencies, often referred to as an elected panel, seems to be a fixed or quasi entity in the government’s system that is in charge of overseeing and administering specified responsibilities, such as management. There seems to be a wide range of agency kinds to choose from. A government agency is usually not similar to either a government or ministry department, as well as other sorts of public bodies formed by governments.Because other sorts of organizations have been most typically formed for looking after advisory roles, the responsibilities of an agency are generally executive in nature, this distinction often gets  clouded in when looking at the system as a whole.

Cabinet, Ministries, And Agencies:

• The Union Council of Ministers consists of the Prime minister, Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State, and Secretaries
• The cabinet is led by the prime minister and is advised by the cabinet secretary, and also acts as the head of the Indian Administrative Service and other civil services
• There are a total of 58 ministries and 93 departments working under the executive 

Secretaries 

There are various ministries and their respective departments present in the executive. The secretaries are the administrative heads of these ministries or departments. They are usually IAS Officers and are the principal advisors to the minister within the ministry/department. The list of various ministries and their respective secretaries is as follows:

1. Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare – Sanjay Agarwal
2. Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Homeopathy (abbreviated as AYUSH) – Rajesh Kotecha
3. Ministry of Civil Aviation – Shri Rajiv Bansal
4. Ministry of Coal – Anil Kumar Jain 
5. Ministry of Communications – Aruna Sundar Rajan, Pradipta Kumar Bisoi
6. The Ministry of Defense – Dr. Ajay Kumar, Subhash Chandra, Sanjeevanee Kutty, Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy 
7. Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation – Ms. Vini Mahajan
8. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology – Ajay Prakash Sawhney 
9. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change – R.P. Gupta, Shri C.P.Goyal
10. Ministry of External Affairs – Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Reenat Sandhu, Saurabh Kumar, Sanjay Bhattacharyya, Dammu Ravi
11. Ministry of Finance – T. V Somanathan, Ajai Seth, Tarun Bajaj, Sanjay Malhotra, Tuhin Kanta Pande
12. Ministry of Food Processing Industries – Smt. Pushpa Subrahmanyam
13. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare – Bharati Pawar
14. Ministry of Home Affairs – Ajay Kumar Bhalla
15. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs – Durga Shanker Mishra
16. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting – Apoorva Chandra
17. Ministry of Law and Justice – Anoop Kumar Mendiratta, G Narayana Raju, Alok Shrivastava
18. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy – Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi
19. Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs – Dr. R.S Shukla
20. Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions – Deepak Khandekar, Indevar   Pandey
21. Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas – M. M. Kutty
22. Ministry of Power – Alok Kumar
23. Ministry of Railways – Vinay Kumar Tripathi
24. Ministry of Road Transport and Highways – Giridhar Aramane
25. Ministry of Rural Development – Nagendra Nath Sinha
26. Ministry of Steel – Pradip Kumar Tripathi 
27. Ministry of Tribal Affairs – Deepak Khandekar
28. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports – Smt. Usha Sharma, Sujata Chaturvedi

Conclusion:

Thus we see that various secretaries are allotted to most of the ministries as chief advisers to the ministers of the department and often act as the chief executives of the respective ministries.