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Council of Ministers

(as on 18.05.2007)

CABINET MINISTERS
1 Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister and also in-charge of the Ministries/ Departments not specifically allocated to the charge of any Minister viz.:

(i) Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions;
(ii) Ministry of Planning;
(iii) Department of Atomic Energy; and
(iv) Department of Space;
(v) Ministry of Coal. and
(vi) Ministry of Environment and Forests.
2 Shri Pranab Mukherjee Minister of External Affairs.
3 Shri Arjun Singh Minister of Human Resource Development.
4 Shri Sharad Pawar Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
5 Shri Lalu Prasad Minister of Railways.
6 Shri A.K. Antony Minister of Defence
7 Shri Shivraj V. Patil Minister of Home Affairs.
8 Shri A.R. Antulay Minister of Minority Affairs.
9 Shri Sushilkumar Shinde Minister of Power
10 Shri Ram Vilas Paswan Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers and Minister of Steel.
11 Shri S. Jaipal Reddy Minister of Urban Development.
12 Shri Sis Ram Ola Minister of Mines.
13 Shri P. Chidambaram Minister of Finance.
14 Shri Mahavir Prasad Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
15 Shri P.R. Kyndiah Minister of Tribal Affairs.
16 Shri T.R. Baalu Minister of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways.
17 Shri Shankersinh Vaghela Minister of Textiles.
18 Shri Vayalar Ravi Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs.
19 Shri Kamal Nath Minister of Commerce & Industry.
20 Shri H.R. Bhardwaj Minister of Law & Justice.
21 Shri Sontosh Mohan Dev Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises.
22 Prof. Saif-ud-din Soz Minister of Water Resources.
23 Shri Raghuvansh Prasad Singh Minister of Rural Development
24 Shri Priyaranjan Dasmunsi Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Information & Broadcasting.
25 Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar Minister of Panchayati Raj, Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region. .
26 Smt. Meira Kumar Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment.
27 Shri Murli Deora Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas.
28 Smt. Ambika Soni Minister of Tourism and Minister of Culture.
29 Shri A. Raja Minister of Communications and Information Technology.
30 Dr. Anbumani Ramdoss Minister of Health & Family Welfare.
31

Shri Kapil Sibal

 Minister of  Science & Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences.
32 Shri Prem Chand Gupta Minister of Corporate Affairs.

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)
1 Shri Oscar Fernandes Minister of State (Independent Charge)  of the Ministry of Labour & Employment.
2 Smt. Renuka Chowdhury Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Women & Child Development.
3 Shri Subodh Kant Sahay Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
4 Shri Vilas Muttemwar Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy .
5 Kumari Selja Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.
6 Shri Praful Patel Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
7

Shri G. K. Vasan

 Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation.

MINISTERS OF STATE
1 Shri E. Ahammed Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs.
2 Shri Suresh Pachouri Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
3 Shri B.K. Handique Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
4 Smt. Panabaka Lakshmi Minister of State in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
5 Dr. Dasari Narayan Rao Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal.
6 Dr. Shakeel Ahmad Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology.
7 Shri Rao Inderjit Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of  Defence.
8 Shri Naranbhai Rathwa Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways.
9 Shri K.H. Muniappa Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways.
10 Shri M.V. Rajasekharan Minister of State in the Ministry of Planning.
11 Shri Kantilal Bhuria Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
12 Shri Manikrao Gavit Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
13 Shri Shriprakash Jaiswal Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
14 Shri Prithviraj Chavan Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office.
15 Shri Taslimuddin Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
16 Smt. Suryakanta Patil Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
17 Shri Md. Ali Ashraf Fatmi Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
18 Shri R. Velu Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways.
19 Shri S.S. Palanimanickam Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance.
20 Shri S. Regupathy Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment and Forests.
21 Shri K. Venkatapathy Minister of State in the Ministry of Law & Justice.
22 Smt. Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
23 Shri E.V.K.S. Elangovan Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles.
24 Smt Kanti Singh Minister of State in the Department of Heavy Industry, Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises.
25 Shri Namo Narain Meena Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment & Forests.
26 Shri Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav Minister of State in the Ministry of Water Resources.
27 Dr. Akhilesh Prasad Singh Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
28 Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance.
29 Shri Anand Sharma Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs.
30 Shri Ajay Maken Minister of State in the Ministry of Urban Development.
31 Shri Dinsha J. Patel Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas.
32 Shri M.M. Pallam Raju Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.
33 Dr. T. Subbarami Reddy Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines.
34 Dr. Akhilesh Das Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel.
35 Shri Ashwani Kumar Minister of State in the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry.
36
 		 Shri Jairam Ramesh Minister of State in the Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry.
37 Shri Chandra Sekhar Sahu Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development.
38 Smt. D. Purandeswari Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
39 Shri M.H. Ambareesh Minister of State in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.
40 Smt. V. Radhika Selvi Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
 

Note: Incorporates changes in the Council of Ministers as on 18.05.2007.