
Prime Minister Narendra Modi carried out a major reshuffle of his cabinet on 5 July. While nineteen new faces were inducted into Modi's Council of Ministers, a number of other ministries were rejigged - with the defence, home, finance and external affairs portfolios left untouched.
Minister of State Prakash Javadekar was elevated to a Cabinet rank as he took over as the Minister of Human Resource and Development. Former HRD minister Smriti Irani will now oversee the textile ministry.
The cabinet size has now gone up to 78. The reshuffle comes ahead of the Parliament monsoon season - which is scheduled to begin later this month.
Here's a list of the newly elected ministers:
Cabinet Ministers
1. Rajnath Singh - Home Affairs
2. Sushma Swaraj - External Affairs
3. Arun Jaitley - Finance, Corporate Affairs
4. M Venkaiah Naidu - Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Information & Broadcasting
5. Nitin Jairam Gadkari - Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
6. Manohar Parrikar - Defence
7. Suresh Prabhu - Railways
8. DV Sadananda Gowda - Statistics & Programme Implementation
9. Uma Bharati - Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
10. Dr Najma A Heptulla - Minority Affairs
11. Ramvilas Paswan - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
12. Kalraj Mishra - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
13. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - Women and Child Development
14. Ananthkumar - Chemicals and Fertilizers, Parliamentary Affairs
15. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad - Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
16. Jagat Prakash Nadda - Health & Family Welfare
17. Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati - Civil Aviation
18. Anant Geete - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
19. Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Food Processing Industries
20. Narendra Singh Tomar - Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
21. Chaudhary Birender Singh - Steel
22. Jual Oram - Tribal Affairs
23. Radha Mohan Singh - Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
24. Thaawar Chand Gehlot - Social Justice and Empowerment
25. Smriti Zubin Irani - Textiles
26. Harsh Vardhan - Science and Technology, Earth Sciences
27. Prakash Javadekar - Human Resource Development
Ministers of State
1. Shri Rao Inderjit Singh - Planning (Independent Charge) Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation
2. Bandaru Dattatreya - Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)
3. Rajiv Pratap Rudy - Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
4. Vijay Goel - Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
5. Shripad Yesso Naik - AAYUSH (Independent Charge)
6. Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
7. Piyush Goyal - Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge), Mines (Independent Charge)
8. Dr. Jitendra Singh - Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister's Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
9. Nirmala Sitharaman - Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
10. Dr. Mahesh Sharma - Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
11. Manoj Sinha - Communications (Independent Charge), Railways
12. Anil Madhav Dave - Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
13. General VK Singh - External Affairs
14. Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Finance
15. Faggan Singh Kulaste - Health & Family Welfare
16. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi - Minority Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs
17. SS Ahluwalia - Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Parliamentary Affairs
18. Ramdas Athawale - Social Justice & Empowerment
19. Ram Kripal Yadav - Rural Development
20. Haribhai Parthbhai Chaudhary - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
21. Giriraj Singh - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
22. Hansraj Gangaram Ahir - Home Affairs
23. GM Siddeshwara - Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
24. Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi - Drinking Water & Sanitation
25. Rajen Gohain - Railways
26. Parshottam Rupala - Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Panchayati Raj
27. MJ Akbar - External Affairs
28. Upendra Kushwaha - Human Resources Development
29. Radhakrishnan P - Road Transport & Highways, Shipping
30. Kiren Rijiju - Home Affairs
31. Krishan Pal - Social Justice & Empowerment
32. Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor - Tribal Affairs
33. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan - Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
34. Vishnu Deo Sai - Steel
35. Sudarshan Bhagat - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
36. YS Chowdary - Science and Technology, Earth Science
37. Jayant Sinha - Civil Aviation
38. Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore - Information & Broadcasting
39. Babul Supriyo - Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
40. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti - Food Processing Industries
41. Vijay Sampla - Social Justice & Empowerment
42. Arjun Ram Meghwal - Finance, Corporate Affairs
43. Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey - Human Resource Development
44. Ajay Tamta - Textiles
45. Krishna Raj - Women & Child Development
46. Mansukh L Mandaviya - Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fertilizers
47. Smt Anupriya Patel - Health & Family Welfare
48. CR Chaudhary - Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
49. PP Chaudhary - Law & Justice, Electronics & Information Technology
50. Dr Subhash Ramrao Bhamre - Defence