UNION COUNCIL OF MINISTERS (26-05-2014)

PRIME MINISTER

1.      Narendra Damodar Das Modi: Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any minister.

CABINET MINISTERS

2.      Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs

3.      Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs

4.      Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Defence

5.      Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs

6.    Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation (Gopinath Munde died in road accident at Delhi way to airport)

7.      D.V. Sadananda Gowda : Railways

8.      Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

9.      Najma Heptulla: Minority Affairs

10.  Dr. Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare

11.  Ram Vilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

12.  Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

13.  Maneka Sanjay Gandhi: Women and Child Development

14.  Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers

15.  Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology, Law and Justice

16.  Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation

17.  Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

18.  Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries

19.  Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment

20.  Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs

21.  Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture

22.  Thawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment

23.  Smriti  Zubin Irani: Human Resource Development

MINISTERS OF STATE

24.  Gen. V. K. Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs

25.  Rao Inderjit Singh: Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence

26.  Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

27.  Shripad Yesso Naik: Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)

28.  Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

29.  Sarbananda Sonowal: Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

30.  Prakash Javadekar: Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs

31.  Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)

32.  Dr. Jitendra Singh: Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Earth Sciences (Independent Charge), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space

33.  Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance, Corporate Affairs

34.  G. M. Siddeshwara: Civil Aviation

35.  Manoj Sinha: Railways

36.  Nihalchand: Chemicals and Fertilizers

37.  Upendra Kushwaha: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation

38.  Pon Radhakrishnan: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

39.  Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs

40.  Krishan Pal Gujjar: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping

41.  Sanjiv Balyan: Agriculture, Food Processing Industries

42.  Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs

43.  Raosaheb Dadarao Patil Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

44.  Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment

45.  Sudarshan Bhagat: Social Justice and Empowerment

Lieutenant Governors and Administrators of Union Territory

Union Territory                                              Lt. Governor/Administrator

Andaman and Nicobar Island (UT)  Lt. General A.K. Singh (Retd.), PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM (LG)

Chandigarh (UT)                              Shri Shivraj V. Patil (Administrator)

Dadra and Nagar Haveli (UT)          Shri B. S. Bhalla, IAS (Administrator)

Daman and Diu (UT)                       Shri B. S. Bhalla, IAS (Administrator)

Delhi (NCT)                                    Shri Najeeb Jung (Lieutenant Governor)

Lakshadweep (UT)                         Shri H. Rajesh Prasad, IAS (Administrator)

Puducherry (UT)                             Shri Virendra Kataria (Lieutenant Governor)

The new government led by PM Narendra Modi has appointed senior Supreme Court advocate Ranjit Kumar as the Solicitor General of India.

A few days back, Mukul Rohatgi was appointed as the Attorney General of India, who thus became the top law officer of the country. The Solicitor General is subordinate to the Attorney General for India.

President Pranab Mukherjee appointed former Intelligence Bureau chief Rajiv Mathur (64) as the new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC).

Hiroshi Naka has been appointed as vice-president and auditor general of World Bank (WB).