List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2023
By Balaji
Updated on: March 6th, 2023
Cabinet Ministers of India are high-ranking state officials of the administrative branch’s top leaders. The current list of the Council of Ministers of India consists of 28 Cabinet Ministers, 45 Ministers of State, and 2 Ministers of State (Independent Charge) to aid the Prime Minister of India.
Cabinet Ministers of India are the members of a cabinet, also called secretaries. It is important to know that the Prime minister of India suggests the names of Cabinet Ministers, whereas the President of India revises the list. Read here to know the Cabinet Ministers of India 2023 list to understand their responsibilities, composition, and more.
Table of content
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1. Cabinet Ministers of India 2023
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2. All Ministers of India 2023
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3. List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2023
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4. Constitutional Requirements for Cabinet Ministers of India
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5. Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
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6. Ministers of State
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7. Historical Facts on Cabinet Ministers of India
Cabinet Ministers of India 2023
Cabinet Ministers of India 2023 contains a member of the Government’s executive branch appointed to the cabinet. It is also known as the Union Cabinet Ministers of India, which is a part of the Council of Ministers. All the members of the Cabinet must serve as a member of either of the houses(Rajya Sabha or Lok Sabha) for six consecutive months. Candidates preparing for UPSC exam can download the PDF containing the names of all the Cabinet Ministers of India:
List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2023 PDF
The Prime Minister is the head of the Cabinet Ministers. Including the Prime Minister, there are a total of 29 members as per the updated list, which was released on 6 July 2022. All portfolios of the Cabinet Ministers of India, which are not allocated to any minister, are controlled by the PM of India. The resignation or demise of the Prime Minister automatically disbands the Cabinet Ministers which is the central transmission channel between the President and the Council of Ministers.
All Ministers of India 2023
There are a total of 76 ministers in India currently under the Council of ministers. This Council of Ministers took the oath with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 30 May 2019. It is essential to know that a vital difference exists between the Cabinet and the Council of Ministers. The Council of Cabinet Ministers is a subdivision of this council. To be precise, the Council of Ministers consists of the following divisions:
- Prime Minister
- Cabinet Ministers (28 members)
- Ministers of State (Independent Charge) (2 members)
- Ministers of State (45 members)
The council also includes Deputy Ministers and Parliamentary secretaries. All of the levels have their responsibilities to perform, which are elaborated in the table below:
| Ministers Council | Role |
| Cabinet Ministers of India | Top decision-making body briefing the President on diverse issues.
They hold critical portfolios and attend the Cabinet discussion. |
| Ministers of State | They are in charge of independent departments of a ministry.
Designated to help the Cabinet Ministers. |
| Deputy Ministers | They have no independent charge.
They are selected to assist the Ministers of State or Cabinet Ministers. |
| Parliamentary Secretaries | They are connected to senior ministers and aid them during Parliamentary duties. |
List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2023
Currently, in 2023, there are a total of 28 Cabinet Ministers of India. Given below is the entire list of Cabinet Ministers of India along with their portfolios and states they represent:
| S. No. | Cabinet Minister of India | Department/Portfolio | State |
| 1 | Shri Giriraj Singh | Minister of Panchayati Raj;
Minister of Rural Development |
Begusarai (Bihar) |
| 2 | Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Minister of Jal Shakti | Jodhpur (Rajasthan) |
| 3 | Shri Pashu Pati Kumar Paras | Minister of Food Processing Industries | Hajipur (Bihar) |
| 4 | Shri Pralhad Joshi | Minister of Parliamentary Affairs;
Minister of Coal; Minister of Mines. |
Dharwad (Karnataka) |
| 5 | Shri Virendra Kumar | Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment. | Tikamgarh (Madhya Pradesh) |
| 6 | Shri Narendra Singh Tomar | Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare | Moren (Madhya Pradesh) |
| 7 | Shri Dharmendra Pradhan | Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship;
Minister of Education and |
Deogarh (Odisha) |
| 8 | Shri Raj Kumar Singh | Minister of New and Renewable Energy;
Minister of Power |
Arrah (Bihar) |
| 9 | Shri Anurag Singh Thakur | Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports;
Minister of Information and Broadcasting |
Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh) |
| 10 | Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar | Minister of External Affairs | Rajya Sabha (Gujarat) |
| 11 | Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari | Minister of Road Transport and Highways | Nagpur (Maharashtra) |
| 12 | Shri Parshottam Rupala | Minister of Fisheries,
Animal Husbandry and Dairying |
Gujarat |
| 13 | Shri Bhupender Yadav | Minister of Labour and Employment;
Minister of Environment Forest and Climate Change |
Rajasthan |
| 14 | Shri G. Kishan Reddy | Minister of Development of North Eastern Region;
Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism |
Secunderabad (Telangana) |
| 15 | Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani | Minister of Minority Affairs; Minister of Women and Child Development | Amethi (Uttar Pradesh) |
| 16 | Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia | Minister of Civil Aviation; Minister of Steel |
Madhya Pradesh |
| 17 | Shri Arjun Munda | Minister of Tribal Affairs. | Khunti (Jharkhand) |
| 18 | Shri Mansukh Mandaviya | Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Minister of Health and Family Welfare |
Palitana (Gujarat) |
| 19 | Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman | Minister of Corporate Affairs;
Minister of Finance |
Karnataka |
| 20 | Shri Narayan Tatu Rane | Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises | Maharashtra |
| 21 | Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey | Minister of Heavy Industries | Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh) |
| 22 | Shri Raj Nath Singh | Minister of Defence | Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) |
| 23 | Kiren Rijiju | Minister of Law and Justice | Arunachal West (Arunachal Pradesh) |
| 24 | Shri Amit Shah | Ministry of Cooperation;
Minister of Home Affairs |
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) |
| 25 | Shri Piyush Goyal | Minister of Textiles;
Minister of Commerce and Industry; Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
Maharashtra |
| 26 | Shri Sarbananda Sonowal | Minister of AYUSH;
Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways |
Assam |
| 27 | Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw | Minister of Electronics and Information Technology;
Minister of Railways; Minister of Communications |
Odisha |
| 28 | Shri Hardeep Singh Puri | Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs;
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas |
Uttar Pradesh |
Constitutional Requirements for Cabinet Ministers of India
The Article 352 of the Constitution finds the word ‘Cabinet’ mentioned in it. And as per Article 74, the Council of Ministers of India(including Cabinet Ministers of India) and the Prime Minister will assist and suggest the President of India who can hold their position to exercise the crucial functions. Here are other facts from constitutional requirements:
- The Prime Minister had the control of appointing anyone to his council of ministers before the 91st constitutional amendment act 2003.
- After the Act modification, there was an extreme change in depriving such authority of the Prime Minister.
- The amendment added Clause (1A) in the Article, which brought the 91st Constitution Amendment Act, 2003.
- It stated that the total number of Ministers, including the Prime Minister, cannot surpass 15 percent of the entire members of Lok Sabha.
- The Ministry of Cooperation was established in the same year.
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
Ministers of state are one-time cabinet members of India or party leaders who instruct the Sovereign in complicated circumstances, with moral power but without legal competence. Unlike the Minister of state, these ministers can attend official meetings with Cabinet Ministers of India on important issues. Below are the two current state ministers that have independent charges:
| Ministers of State | Department | Constituency |
| Dr. Jitendra Singh | State Minister (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Science and Technology
State Minister (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences State Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office State Minister in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions State Minister in the Department of Atomic Energy State Minister in the Department of Space |
Udhampur (Jammu & Kashmir) |
| Rao Inderjit Singh | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
State Minister (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning State Minister in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs |
Gurugram (Haryana) |
Ministers of State
The Ministers of the state comprise the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers in each State. A total of 45 ministers are assigned as the Ministers of State and are shown below:
Ministers of State List
| S. No. | Ministers of State | Portfolio |
| 1 | Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti | State Minister in Food and Public;
Distribution and Consumer Affairs; State Minister in Rural Development |
| 2 | Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad | State Minister in Finance |
| 3 | Smt. Annpurna Devi | State Minister in Education |
| 4 | Shri Shripad Yesso Naik | State Minister in Tourism;
State Minister in the Ports, Shipping and Waterways |
| 5 | Sushri Shobha Karandlaje | State Minister in Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
| 6 | Shri Rameswar Teli | State Minister in Labour and Employment;
State Minister in Petroleum and Natural Gas |
| 7 | Shri Kailash Choudhary | State Minister in Agriculture and Farmers Welfare |
| 8 | Shri Shantanu Thakur | State Minister in Ports, Shipping and Waterways |
| 9 | Shri John Barla | State Minister in the Minority Affairs |
| 10 | Dr. L. Murugan | State Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying;
State Minister of Information and Broadcasting |
| 11 | Shri A. Narayanaswamy | State Minister of Empowerment and Social Justice |
| 12 | Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao | State Minister of Mines;
State Minister of Railways; State Minister of Coal |
| 13 | Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey | State Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change;
State Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution |
| 14 | Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar | State Minister of Health and Family Welfare |
| 15 | Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai | State Minister of AYUSH;
State Minister of Women and Child Development |
| 16 | Shri Faggansingh Kulaste | State Minister of Rural Development;
State Minister of Steel |
| 17 | Smt. Anupriya Singh Patel | State Minister of Industry and Commerce |
| 18 | Shri Som Parkash | State Minister of Industry and Commerce |
| 19 | Shri Nisith Pramanik | State Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports;
State Minister of Home Affairs |
| 20 | Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma | State Minister in the Small, Micro, and Medium Corporations |
| 21 | Shri V. Muraleedharan | State Minister of Parliamentary Affairs;
State Minister of External Affairs |
| 22 | Shri Ajay Bhatt | State Minister of Tourism;
State Minister of Defence |
| 23 | Shri Ajay Kumar | State Minister of Home Affairs |
| 24 | Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar | State Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship;
State Minister of Electronics and Information Technology |
| 25 | Shri Prahalad Singh Patel | State Minister of Food Processing Industries;
State Minister of Jal Shakti |
| 26 | Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal | State Minister of Culture;
State Minister of Parliamentary Affairs |
| 27 | Shri Ramdas Athawale | State Minister of Empowerment and Social Justice |
| 28 | Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil | State Minister of Panchayati Raj |
| 29 | General (Retd.) V. K. Singh | State Minister of Civil Aviation;
State Minister of Road Transport and Highways |
| 30 | Prof. S. P. Singh Baghel | State Minister in Law and Justice |
| 31 | Smt. Darshana Vikram Jardosh | State Minister of Railways;
State Minister of Textiles |
| 32 | Shri B. L. Verma | State Minister of Cooperation;
State Minister of Northeastern Region Development |
| 33 | Shri Pankaj Chaowdhary | State Minister of Finance |
| 34 | Shri Bishweswar Tudu | State Minister of Tribal Affairs;
State Minister of Jal Shakti |
| 35 | Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan | State Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying |
| 36 | Shri Kaushal Kishore | State Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs |
| 37 | Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta | State Minister of Tribal Affairs |
| 38 | Sushri Pratima Bhoumik | State Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment |
| 39 | Shri Nityanand Rai | State Minister of Home Affairs |
| 40 | Shri Devusinh Chauhan | State Minister of Communications |
| 41 | Shri Bhagwanth Khuba | State Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers;
State Minister of New and Renewable Energy |
| 42 | Dr. Subhas Sarkar | State Minister of Education |
| 43 | Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh | State Minister of Education;
State Minister of External Affairs |
| 44 | Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi | State Minister of Culture;
State Minister of External Affairs |
| 45 | Shri Krishan Pal | State Minister of Heavy Industries;
State Minister of Power |
Historical Facts on Cabinet Ministers of India
The first cabinet was formed on 15 August 1947 where a total of 15 members were sworn as Cabinet Ministers of India along with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Look at the historical facts about the first Cabinet Ministers having different portfolios in the areas of education, finance, external affairs, etc, in the table shown below:
| Portfolio | Cabinet Minister |
| First Education Minister of India | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| First Finance Minister of India | R. K. Shanmukham Chetty |
| First External Affairs Minister of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| First Prime Minister of India | |
| First Defence Minister of India | Baldev Singh |
| First Deputy Prime Minister of India | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| First Home Minister of India | |
| First President of India | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
