As the Prime Minister of the nation Mr Narendra Modi will hold the rights to Finance, Defense and Corporate affairs, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space and all important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any other minister.The newly elected Ministers have already started assuming office and are occupying their respective chambers.

They are scheduled to meet Mr Modi at 5:00 PM, today in their first Cabinet meeting after the swearing in ceremony yesterday. As per the Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué ,the portfolio allocation of 46 ministers, including 24 cabinet ministers is given as follows.

Cabinet Ministers include:

Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs

Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs

Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Defence

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

Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping

D.V. Sadananda Gowda: Railways

Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Najma A. Heptulla: Minority Affairs

Gopinathrao Munde: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation

Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Maneka Gandhi: Women and Child Development

Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers

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

Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation

Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries

Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment

Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs

Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture

Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment

Smriti Irani: Human Resource Development

Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare

The Ministers of State include:

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

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

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

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

Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) Sarbananda Sonowal: Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

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

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

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

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

G.M. Siddeshwara: Civil Aviation

Manoj Sinha: Railways

Nihalchand: Chemicals and Fertilizers

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

P. Radhakrishnan: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Kiren Rijiju, Home Affairs Krishan Pal: Road Transport and Highways, Shipping

Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture, Food Processing Industries

Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs

Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment

Sudarshan Bhagat: Social Justice and Empowerment