what do you know about the allocation of portfolios to the council of ministers and the size of the council of ministers?explain
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Answer:
The main function of the Council of the Ministers is to aid and advice the President. 2. The Council of Ministers determines the legislative programme of the Union and uses its initiative in the introduction and passage of Government legislation.
Explanation:
The main function of the Council of the Ministers is to aid and advice the President. 2. The Council of Ministers determines the legislative programme of the Union and uses its initiative in the introduction and passage of Government legislation.
Answer:
PRESIDENT ALLOCATES PORTFOLIOS OF THE COUNCIL OF
MINISTERS
The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed
that the allocation of portfolios amongst the members of the Council of
Ministers shall be as below:-
Prime Minister
Shri Narendra 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
1. Shri Rajnath Singh Home Affairs
2. Smt. Sushma Swaraj External Affairs
Overseas Indian Affairs
3. Shri Arun Jaitley Finance
Corporate Affairs
Information & Broadcasting
4. Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu Urban Development
Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation
Parliamentary Affairs
5. Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari Road Transport and Highways
Shipping
6. Shri Manohar Parrikar Defence
7. Shri Suresh Prabhu Railways
8. Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda Law & Justice
9. Sushri Uma Bharati Water Resources, River
Development and Ganga10. Dr. Najma A. Heptulla Minority Affairs
11. Shri Ramvilas Paswan Consumer Affairs, Food and
Public Distribution
12. Shri Kalraj Mishra Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises
13. Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Women and Child
Development
14. Shri Ananthkumar Chemicals and Fertilizers
15. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Communications and
Information Technology
16. Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda Health & Family Welfare
17. Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju
Pusapati
Civil Aviation
18. Shri Anant Geete Heavy Industries and Public
Enterprises
19. Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal Food Processing Industries
20. Shri Narendra Singh Tomar Mines
Steel
21. Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh Rural Development
Panchayati Raj
Drinking Water and
Sanitation
22. Shri Jual Oram Tribal Affairs
23. Shri Radha Mohan Singh Agriculture
24. Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot Social Justice and
Empowerment
25. Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani Human Resource
Development
26. Dr. Harsh Vardhan Science and TechnologyMINISTERS OF STATE
27. General V.K. Singh Statistics and Programme
Implementation (Independent
Charge)
External Affairs
Overseas Indian Affairs
28. Shri Inderjit Singh Rao Planning (Independent
Charge)
Defence
29. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Textiles (Independent Charge)
30. Shri Bandaru Dattatreya Labour and Employment
(Independent Charge)
31. Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship
(Independent Charge)
Parliamentary Affairs
32. Shri Shripad Yesso Naik AAYUSH (Independent
Charge)
Health & Family Welfare
33. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Petroleum and Natural Gas
(Independent Charge)
34. Shri Sarbananda Sonowal Youth Affairs and Sports
(Independent Charge)
35. Shri Prakash Javadekar Environment, Forest and
Climate Change (Independent
Charge)
36. Shri Piyush Goyal Power (Independent Charge)
Coal (Independent Charge)
New and Renewable Energy
(Independent Charge)
37. Dr. Jitendra Singh Development of North Eastern38. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman Commerce and Industry
(Independent Charge)
39. Dr. Mahesh Sharma Culture (Independent Charge)
Tourism (Independent Charge)
Civil Aviation
40. Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minority Affairs
Parliamentary Affairs
41. Shri Ram Kripal Yadav Drinking Water & Sanitation
42. Shri Haribhai Parthibhai
Chaudhary
Home Affairs
43. Shri Sanwar Lal Jat Water Resources, River
Development & Ganga
Rejuvenation
44. Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai
Kundariya
Agriculture
45. Shri Giriraj Singh Micro, Small & Medium
Enterprises
46. Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir Chemicals & Fertilizers
47. Shri G.M. Siddeshwara Heavy Industries & Public
Enterprises
48. Shri Manoj Sinha Railways
49. Shri Nihalchand Panchayati Raj
50. Shri Upendra Kushwaha Human Resource
Development
51. Shri Radhakrishnan P. Road Transport & Highways52. Shri Kiren Rijiju Home Affairs
53. Shri Krishan Pal Social Justice &
Empowerment
54. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Agriculture
55. Shri Manuskhbhai Dhanjibhai
Vasava
Tribal Affairs
56. Shri Raosaheb Dadarao Danve Consumer Affairs, Food and
Public Distribution
57. Shri Vishnu Deo Sai Mines
Steel
58. Shri Sudarshan Bhagat Rural Development
59. Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar
Katheria
Human Resource
Development
60. Shri Y.S. Chowdary Science and Technology
Earth Science
61. Shri Jayant Sinha Finance
62. Col. Rajyavardhan Singh
Rathore
Information & Broadcasting
63. Shri Babul Supria (Babul
Supriyo) Baral
Urban Development
Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation
64. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti Food Processing Industries
65. Shri Vijay Sampla Social Justice &
Empowerment...........