Union Council of Ministers

The Union Council of Ministers exercises executive authority in the Republic of India.[1] It consists of Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State (Independent charge) and Ministers of State.

It is led by the Prime Minister. A smaller executive body, called the Union Cabinet is the supreme decision-making body in India.[2] Only the Prime Minister and ministers of the rank of "Cabinet Minister" are members of Union Cabinet per Article 352.

Regulations

Per Article 75(3), the Council of Ministers is responsible collectively to the lower house of the Indian Parliament, called the Lok Sabha (House of People).[1] When a bill introduced by a minister in the Lok sabha is not approved by it, entire council of ministers is responsible and not the minister. The council of ministers upon losing confidence of Lok Sabha shall resign to facilitate new government formation.

A minister shall not take any decision without being considered by the council of ministers per Article 78(c). All union cabinet members shall submit in writing to the President to propose proclamation of emergency by the president per Article 352.

According to the Constitution of India, the total number of ministers in the Council of Ministers must not exceed 15% of the total number of members of the House of the People. Ministers must be members of parliament. Any minister who is not a member of either the lower or upper houses of parliament for six consecutive months is automatically stripped off his or her ministerial post.[1]

Ranking

There are five categories of council of ministers as given below, in descending order of rank:

Appointment

Per Article 75, a minister who works at the pleasure of President, is appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister.

Removal

It is nowhere stated in the constitution, a minister can be removed by the Prime Minister at his will.[4]

Council of Ministers of a State

Every state in India is governed by its council of ministers with rules and procedure similar to union council of ministers per Articles 163, 164 and 167(c). There is no concept of cabinet rank minister in the council of ministers.

Current Union Council of Ministers

As a collective, each successive Council of Ministers is referred to as a cabinet. The current cabinet is led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who took office on 26 May 2014.

Cabinet Ministers

Source:[5][6]
Key

India cabinet ministers information-2014

Portfolio Minister Took office Left office Party
Prime Minister
Ministry of 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.		 Narendra Modi26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Home Affairs Rajnath Singh26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs Sushma Swaraj26 May 20147 January 2016BJPThis Ministry was merged with Ministry of External Affairs
Minister of Finance
Minister of Corporate Affairs		 Arun Jaitley26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Defence Arun Jaitley26 May 20149 November 2014BJP 
 Manohar Parrikar9 November 201413 March 2017BJP 
 Arun Jaitley13 March 2017IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar26 May 20149 November 2014BJP[7]
 Arun Jaitley9 November 20145 July 2016BJP 
 Venkaiah Naidu5 July 201617 July 2017BJP[8]
 Smriti Irani18 July 2017IncumbentBJP[9]
Minister of Railways D. V. Sadananda Gowda26 May 20149 November 2014BJP 
 Suresh Prabhu9 November 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Urban Development
Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation		 Venkaiah Naidu26 May 201417 July 2017BJP 
 Narendra Singh Tomar18 July 2017IncumbentBJP[9]
Minister of Road Transport and Highways
Minister of Shipping		 Nitin Gadkari26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad 26 May 20149 November 2014BJP 
 D.V. Sadananda Gowda9 November 20145 July 2016BJP 
 Ravi Shankar Prasad5 July 2016IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation  Uma Bharati26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Minority Affairs Najma A. Heptulla26 May 201412 July 2016BJP 
 Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi12 July 2016IncumbentBJPCurrently Minister of state in charge[10]
Minister of Rural Development
Minister of Panchayati Raj
Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation		 Gopinath Munde26 May 20143 June 2014[†]BJP 
 Nitin Gadkari4 June 20149 November 2014BJP[11]
 Birender Singh9 November 20145 July 2016BJP[12]
 Narendra Singh Tomar5 July 2016IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan26 May 2014IncumbentLJP 
Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Kalraj Mishra26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Venkaiah Naidu26 May 20145 July 2016BJP 
 Ananth Kumar5 July 2016IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Ananth Kumar26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Civil Aviation Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati26 May 2014IncumbentTDP 
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Anant Geete26 May 2014IncumbentShiv Sena 
Minister of Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal26 May 2014IncumbentSAD 
Minister of Steel Narendra Singh Tomar26 May 20145 July 2016BJP 
 Chaudhary Birender Singh5 July 2016IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Labour and Employment Narendra Singh Tomar26 May 20149 November 2014BJPCurrently Minister of state in charge
Minister of Tribal Affairs Jual Oram26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare  Radha Mohan Singh26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thawar Chand Gehlot26 May 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani26 May 20145 July 2016BJP 
 Prakash Javadekar5 July 2016IncumbentBJP[8]
Minister of Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan9 November 2014IncumbentBJP 
Minister Of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan4 June 20149 November 2014BJP 
 Jagat Prakash Nadda9 November 2014IncumbentBJP[13]
Minister of Textiles Smriti Irani5 July 2016IncumbentBJP 
Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation D. V. Sadananda Gowda5 July 2016IncumbentBJP 

Ministers of State

Note : *Indicates Minister of State having Independent charge

Bandaru Dattatreya Labour and Employment*
Harsh Vardhan Environment, Forest and Climate Change*
Dharmendra Pradhan Petroleum and Natural Gas*
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minority Affairs*
Bandaru DattatreyaLabour and Employment*
Faggan Singh Kulaste Health & Family Welfare
Babul Supriyo Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Ajay Tamta Textiles
Giriraj Singh Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Arjun Ram Meghwal Finance, Corporate Affairs
Hansraj Gangaram Ahir Home Affairs
Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor Tribal Affairs
Jayant Sinha Civil Aviation
Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi Drinking Water & Sanitation
Jitendra Singh Development of North Eastern Region*, Prime Minister's Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
Subhash Bhamre Defence
Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
P P Choudhary Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
Kiren Rijiju Home Affairs
Ramdas Athawale Social Justice & Empowerment
Krishan Pal Social Justice & Empowerment
Anupriya Patel Health & Family Welfare
Krishna Raj Women & Child Development
Nirmala Sitharaman Commerce and Industry*
Chhotu Ram Chaudhary Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Mahesh Sharma Culture*, Tourism*
SS Ahluwalia Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs
Manoj Sinha Railways, Communications*
M. J. Akbar External Affairs
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minority Affairs*, Parliamentary Affairs
Vijay Goel Youth Affairs and Sports*, Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Piyush Goyal Power*, Coal*, New and Renewable Energy*, Mines*
Rajen Gohain Railways
Pon Radhakrishnan Road Transport & Highways, Shipping
Parsottambhai Rupala Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, Panchayati Raj
Rajiv Pratap Rudy Skill Development & Entrepreneurship*
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Information & Broadcasting
Ram Kripal Yadav Rural Development
Rao Inderjit Singh Planning*, Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Food Processing Industries
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
Santosh Gangwar Finance
Shripad Yasso Naik AAYUSH*,
Sudarshan Bhagat Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Upendra Kushwaha Human Resource Development
Vijay Kumar Singh External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
Vijay Sampla Social Justice & Empowerment
Vishnu Deo Sai Steel
Y. S. Chowdary Science and Technology, Earth Science

See also

References

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