Cabinet Ministers

Of the following 35 ministers, 30 are from the Indian National Congress including the Prime Minister. The Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and the Heavy Industries Minister Praful Patel are from the Nationalist Congress Party and Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New And Renewable Energy heads the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. The Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister M. K. Azhagiri is from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi is from the Trinamool Congress. Sl. No. State/UT Age House (Constituency)

Name

Ministries Prime Minister of India and also in-charge of the Ministries/Departments viz:

Education

Manmohan Singh

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and 78 Pensions Planning Commission Ministry of Culture Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space

Rajya Assam Sabha

BA Economics (Punjab University), MA (Cambridge), PhD (Oxford)

Pranab Mukherjee

Minister of Finance Minister of Agricultureand Minister of Food Processing Industries Minister of Defence

75

Lok West Bengal Sabha (Jangipur) Lok Maharashtra Sabha (Madha) Rajya Kerala Sabha Lok Tamil Nadu Sabha (Sivaganga)

MA, LLB, DLitt (Calcutta University) B.Com LLB (Kerala University) LLB, MBA (Harvard)

Sharad Pawar

70

4 5

A K Antony P Chidambaram

70

Minister of Home Affairs 65

Minister of Tribal Affairs Vyricherla Kishore Chandra Minister of 64 Suryanarayana Panchayati Raj Deo

B.A. (Economics), M.A. (Political Lok Andhra Pradesh Science) Educated Sabha (Araku (ST)) at Chennai Christian College,

Tambaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu Law Graduate, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX and The George Washington University Law School, Washington D.C. MA B.Sc. & B.A. from M.E.S Abasaheb Garware College, Pune University & L.L.B. from the ILS Law College, Pune University MSc LLB (Mumbai University)

S. M. Krishna

Minister of External Affairs

78

Rajya Karnataka Sabha

Virbhadra Singh

Minister of Micro, Small 76 and Medium Enterprises Minister of Science and Technology

Himachal Lok Pradesh Sabha (Mandi)

Vilasrao Deshmukh

Minister of Earth Sciences

66

Rajya Maharashtra Sabha

10 11

Ghulam Nabi Azad Sushilkumar Shinde

Minister of Health and Family Welfare Minister of Power

61 69

Rajya Jammu and Sabha Kashmir Rajya Maharashtra, Sabha Solapur

12

Veerappa Moily

Minister of Corporate Affairs

71

B.A., B.L. Educated at Lok Karnataka Government Law Sabha (Chikkballapur) College, Bangalore, Karnataka Jammu and Lok Kashmir Sabha (Srinagar) MBBS

13

Farooq Abdullah

Minister of New and Renewable Energy Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister of Urban Development Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and

73 69 64 73

14 Jaipal Reddy 15 Kamal Nath 16 Vayalar Ravi

Lok Andhra Pradesh MA (Osmania Sabha (Chevella) University) Madhya Lok Pradesh Sabha (Chindwada) Rajya Kerala Sabha B Com LLB

Minister of Civil Aviation B.A.,LL.B. Educated at Lucknow University, Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh

17

Beni Prasad Verma

Minister of Steel

70

Lok Uttar Pradesh Sabha (Gonda)

18 Kapil Sibal

Minister of Communications and Information Technology 62 and Minister of Human Resource Development

Lok Delhi (Chandni LLM (Harvard) Sabha Chowk) B.A. (English and Jurisprudence), M.A., B.C.L. Educated at St. Stephen`s College, Delhi and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. B.A. (Hons.) LLB Ph.D B. Com, M.B.A. Educated at St. Xavier`s College, Calcutta University and University of Texas, USA

Minister of Law and Justice 19 Salman Khurshid

Minister of Minority Affairs

58

Lok Farrukhabad Sabha (Farrukhabad)

20 Ambika Soni 21 Mallikarjun Kharge

Minister of Information and Broadcasting Minister of Labour and Employment

68 68

Rajya Punjab Sabha Lok Karnataka Sabha (Gulbarga) Lok Rajasthan Sabha (Bhilwara)

22 C. P. Joshi

Minister of Road 60 Transport and Highways

23 Dinesh Trivedi Minister of Railways

61

Lok West Bengal Sabha (Barrackpore)

Minister of Commerce and Industry 24 Anand Sharma

57 Ministry of Textiles 53

Rajya Himachal Sabha Pradesh Lok Maharashtra Sabha (Bhandara-

BA, LLB (Shimla)

25 Praful Patel

Minister of Heavy Industries and Public

B Com

Enterprises 26 Kumari Selja Minister of Culture and Minister of Housing and 48 Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister of Tourism 59

Gondiya) Lok Haryana Sabha (Ambala) MA, MPhil. B.Sc., LL.B. from (A N College, Patna and Ranchi University) B.A. BSc, LLB MBA

27

Subodh Kant Sahay

Lok Jharkhand Sabha (Ranchi) Rajya Tamil Nadu Sabha Lok Chandigarh, Sabha Chandigarh Lok Maharashtra Sabha (Ramtek)

28 G K Vasan 29 Pavan Kumar Bansal

Minister of Shipping

46

Minister of Parliamentary 62 Affairs Minister of Social Justice 50 and Empowerment

30 Mukul Wasnik

31 Jairam Ramesh

Minister of Rural Development

57

B.Tech., M.S. and Graduate Study Educated at I.I.T., Rajya Andhra Pradesh Bombay, Carnegie Sabha Mellon University, U.S.A. and M.I.T., U.S.A. Lok Tamil Nadu Sabha (Madurai) Lok Uttar Pradesh Sabha (Kanpur) B.A. (Presidency College, Chennai)[1] Intermediate (D.A.V. College, Kanpur)[2] BA (St. Stephen's College, Delhi), BA, MPhil ([Oxford]) BTech (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

32 M. K. Azhagiri Shriprakash 33 Jaiswal Montek Singh 34 Ahluwalia

Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister of Coal

60

66

Planning Commission

67

None NA

Nandan 35 Nilekani

Unique Identification Authority of India

55

None NA