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The Names And Positions Of Union Cabinet Ministers

A cabinet is a group of high-ranking state officials, usually made up of the executive branch’s most powerful officials. Cabinet ministers or secretaries are the titles given to members of a cabinet. a small group of the government’s most powerful people who advise the President or Prime Minister and make key decisions: Every Thursday, the Cabinet meets.

 

   Cabinet Minister                  Position 

Shri Raj Nath Singh

Minister of Defence

Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari

Minister of Road Transport and Highways

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs

Shri Narendra Singh Tomar

Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Minister of External Affairs

Shri Amit Shah

Minister of Home Affairs; and Minister of Cooperation

Shri Arjun Munda

Minister of Tribal Affairs

Shri Piyush Goyal

Minister of Commerce and Industry; Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of Textiles

Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani

Minister of Women and Child Development

Shri Sarbananda Sonowal

Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; and

Minister of AYUSH

Shri Dharmendra Pradhan

Minister of Education; and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

Shri Narayan Tatu Rane

Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Minister of Minority Affairs

Shri Pralhad Joshi

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines

Dr. Virendra Kumar

Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment

Shri Giriraj Singh

Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj

Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw

Minister of Railways; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology

Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia

Minister of Civil Aviation

Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras

Minister of Food Processing Industries

Shri Ramchandra Prasad Singh

Minister of Steel

Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Minister of Jal Shakti

Shri Kiren Rijiju

Minister of Law and Justice

Shri Hardeep Singh Puri

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs

Shri Mansukh Mandaviya

Minister of Health and Family Welfare; and

Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers

Shri Bhupender Yadav

Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Labour and Employment

Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey

Minister of Heavy Industries

Shri Raj Kumar Singh

Minister of Power; and Minister of New and Renewable Energy

Shri G. Kishan Reddy

Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism; and

Minister of Development of North Eastern Region

Shri Anurag Singh Thakur

Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and

Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports

Shri Parshottam Rupala

Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying

 

 

Who is a Chief Minister?

 

A state government’s council of ministers is led by a chief minister, who can be deputised by a deputy chief minister. The chief minister usually appoints the chief secretary and can also assign departments to cabinet ministers and ministers of state as they see fit.

 

 

Chief Ministers of all States

 

         State                               Chief Minister

Andhra Pradesh

Shri YS Jagan Mohan Reddy

Arunachal Pradesh

Shri Pema Khandu

Assam

Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma

Bihar

Shri Nitish Kumar

Chhattisgarh

Shri Bhupesh Baghel

Delhi (NCT)

Shri Arvind Kejriwal

Goa

Shri Pramod Sawant

Gujarat

Shri Bhupendra Patel

Haryana

Shri Manohar Lal

Himachal Pradesh

Shri Jairam Thakur

Jharkhand

Shri Hemant Soren

Karnataka

Sri Basavaraj Bommai

Kerala

Shri Pinarayi Vijayan

Madhya Pradesh

Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Maharashtra

Shri Uddhav Thackeray

Manipur

Shri N. Biren Singh

Meghalaya

Shri Conrad Kongkal Sangma

Mizoram

Shri Pu Zoramthanga

Nagaland

Shri Neiphiu Rio

Odisha

Shri Naveen Patnaik

Puducherry (UT)

Shri N. Rangaswamy

Punjab

Shri Bhagwant Singh Mann

Rajasthan

Shri Ashok Gehlot

Sikkim

Shri PS Golay

Tamil Nadu

Shri M. K. Stalin

Telangana

Shri K Chandrasekhar Rao

Tripura

Shri Biplab Kumar Deb

Uttar Pradesh

Shri Yogi Aditya Nath

Uttarakhand

Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami

West Bengal

Km. Mamata Banerjee

 What is NITI Aayog?

 The NITI Aayog is the Government of India’s apex public policy think tank and the nodal agency tasked with catalysing economic development and fostering cooperative federalism through the bottom-up involvement of State Governments in the economic policy-making process.

 Members of NITI Aayog

 A Governing Council made up of the Chief Ministers of all States and Union Territories with Legislatures, as well as the lieutenant governors of Union Territories.

 

Chief Ministers of States and Lieutenant Governors of Union Territories in the region for Regional Councils to address specific issues and contingencies that affect more than one state or region.

 A Vice-Chairperson, four full-time members, and two part-time members make up the full-time organisational framework.

 NITI Aayog is currently chaired by the Prime Minister, and its Vice Chairperson is Rajiv Kumar. Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitaraman, and Narendra Singh are ex-officio members. Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Virendra Kumar, Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Rao Inderjit Singh are among the special invitees.

 

V. K. Saraswat, Ramesh Chand, and Dr. V. K. Paul is a full-time member. Amitabh Kant is the company’s chief executive officer (CEO). All Chief Ministers of States make up the Governing Council.

 Conclusion

 This initiative aims to bring internationally renowned policymakers, experts, and administrators to India to share their knowledge, expertise, and experience in policymaking and good governance with Indian counterparts. This initiative will consist of a series of lectures, the first of which will be delivered by Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister.

 He gave a lecture at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on the topic “India and the Global Economy.” The Prime Minister discussed the motivation behind the lecture series, stating that his vision for India is rapid transformation rather than gradual evolution.

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