CABENET OF MINISTERIES OF INDIA :The Cabinet of India (officially called the Union Council of Ministers of India) is the collective

decisionmaking body of the Government of India, composed of the Prime Minister and 35 Cabinet Ministers, the most senior of the government ministers. The Cabinet is the ultimate decision-making body of the executive within the Westminster system of government in traditional constitutional theory. The Union Cabinet of the Government of India was formed after the Indian general election, 2009 held in five phases in 2009: on 16 April, 22/23 April, 30 April, 7 May and 13 May 2009. The results of the election were announced on 16 May 2009 and led to the formation of the 15th Lok Sabha. Manmohan Singh took oath as the 14th Prime Minister of India on 22 May 2009, followed by the oath-taking ceremonies of the present 'Council of Ministers' in two phases.
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1 Cabinet Secretary 2 Council of Ministers

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2.1 Cabinet Ministers 2.2 Ministers of State (Independent Charges) 2.3 Ministers of State

3 Demographics of the Council of Ministers

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3.1 UPA Cabinet by Party 3.2 United Progressive Alliance Cabinet by States

4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit]Cabinet

Secretary

The head of executive officers is Cabinet Secretary after President of India.The Cabinet Secretary is under the direct charge of the Prime Minister. The administrative head of the Cabinet Secretariat is the Cabinet Secretary who is also the ex-officio Chairman of the Civil Services Board, and thus the head of the Indian Administrative Service. As a matter of convention the senior most civil servant is appointed as a Cabinet Secretary. He belongs to the Indian Administrative Service. The incumbent generally has a tenure of 2 to 3 years. Though there is no fixed tenure, the average tenure of the Cabinet Secretary in India has been less than 3 years. His tenure however, can be extended. The Cabinet Secretary is the

head of all the civil services under the constitution like IAS, IPS, IRS, IFS, PCS, PPS etc. Thus, he is the head of all the All India services including the Indian Police Service(IPS), Indian Administrative Service(IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Revenue Service(IRS) and the Indian Forest Service(IFS). He ranks eleventh in the Table of Precedence of India. The current Cabinet Secretary is Shri A K Seth [1] The following are the functions of a Cabinet Secretary Provide assistance to the Council of Ministers Act as advisor and conscience keeper of the civil services Handle senior appointments Prepare of the agenda of the Cabinet Attend the meetings of the Cabinet Ensure that the Cabinet decisions are implemented Advise the Prime Minister Act as the Chairman of the Committee of Secretaries on Administration Act as the Chairman of the Chief Secretaries Committee Provide an element of continuity and stability to administration during crises
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In the Government of India Allocation of Business Rules, 1961, "Cabinet Secretariat" finds a place in the First Schedule to the Rules. The subjects allotted to this Secretariat are, firstly, secretarial assistance to Cabinet and Cabinet Committees, and secondly, the administration of the Rules of Business. The Cabinet Secretariat is responsible for the administration of the Government of India Transaction of Business Rules, 1961 and the Government of India Allocation of Business Rules 1961, facilitating smooth transaction of business in Ministries/Departments of the Government by ensuring adherence to these rules. The Secretariat assists in decision-making in Government by ensuring Inter-Ministerial coordination, ironing out differences amongst Ministries/Departments and evolving consensus through the instrumentality of the standing/adhoc Committees of Secretaries. Through this mechanism new policy initiatives are also promoted. The Cabinet Secretariat ensures that the President of India, the Vice-President and Ministers are kept informed of the major activities of all Departments by means of a monthly summary of their activities. Management of major crisis situations in the country and coordinating activities of the various Ministries in such a situation is also one of the functions of the Cabinet Secretariat. The Cabinet Secretariat has 3 wings: Civil, Military and Intelligence. The Civil wing is the main wing and provides aid, advise and assistance to the Union Cabinet. The Military wing provides secretarial

assistance to the Defence Committee of the Cabinet, the Military Affairs Committee, the National Defence Council and other committees dealing with defence matters. The Intelligence wing deals with matters pertaining to the Joint Intelligence Committee of the Union Cabinet. The chief of Research and Analysis Wing R&AW also officially first reports to the Cabinet Secretary, and is officially designated Secretary R in the Cabinet Secretariat. The Cabinet Secretary is arguably India's most powerful bureaucrat and right hand of Prime Minister of India.
[edit]Council

of Ministers

Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh heads his second Cabinet, May 2009 to present

This is a list of current members of the Council of Ministers of the Government of India. All ministers are based in offices of their respective Union Ministries inNew Delhi. All Cabinet members are mandated by the constitution to be members of either House of the Parliament of India. In a departure from the norm the current Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is a member of the Upper House, the Rajya Sabha. He remained so for the duration of his entire first term (20042009) too. Most, but not all, previous Prime Ministers have been elected members of the Lok Sabha. There are three categories of ministers, in descending order of rank: Union Cabinet Minister - senior minister in-charge of a ministry. A cabinet minister may also hold additional charges of other Ministries, where no other Cabinet minister is appointed Minister of State (Independent Charges) - with no overseeing Union cabinet minister for that portfolio

Minister of State (MoS) - junior minister with to overseeing cabinet minister, usually tasked with a specific responsibility in that ministry. For instance, an MoS in the Finance Ministry may only handle taxation.

[edit]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. Age Name Ministries Prime Minister of India and also in-charge of the Ministries/Departments: House State/UT (Constituency) Education

1 Manmohan Singh

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

78 Planning Commission Ministry of Culture Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space 75 70 70 65

Rajya Sabha

Assam

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

2 3 4 5

Pranab Mukherjee Sharad Pawar A K Antony P Chidambaram Kishore Chandra Dev

Minister of Finance Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Food Processing Industries Minister of Defence Minister of Home Affairs Minister of Tribal Affairs Minister of Panchayati Raj

Lok Sabha Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Lok Sabha

West Bengal(Jangipur) Maharashtra(Madha) Kerala Tamil Nadu(Sivaganga) Andhra Pradesh (Araku (ST))

MA, LLB, DLitt (Calcutta University) B.Com LLB (Kerala University) LLB, MBA (Harvard) B.A. (Economics), M.A. (Political Science) Educated 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) B.A., B.L. Educated at Government Law College, Bangalore, Karnataka MBBS

64

S. M. Krishna

Minister of External Affairs

78

Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha Rajya Sabha Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Lok Sabha

Karnataka

Virbhadra Singh Vilasrao Deshmukh Ghulam Nabi Azad Sushilkumar Shinde

Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister of Science and Technology Minister of Earth Sciences Minister of Health and Family Welfare Minister of Power

76

Himachal Pradesh(Mandi)

66

Maharashtra

10 11 12 13

61 69 71 73

Jammu and Kashmir Maharashtra, Solapur Karnataka(Chikkballapur) Jammu and Kashmir(Srinagar)

Veerappa Moily Minister of Corporate Affairs Farooq Abdullah Minister of New and Renewable Energy

14 15 16

Jaipal Reddy Kamal Nath Vayalar Ravi

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister of Urban Development Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs andMinister of Civil Aviation Minister of Communications and Information Technology and Minister of Human Resource Development Minister of Information and Broadcasting

69 64 73

Lok Sabha Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Lok Sabha Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Lok Sabha Lok Sabha Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Lok Sabha Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Lok Sabha

Andhra Pradesh(Chevella) Madhya Pradesh(Chindwada) Kerala

MA (Osmania University) B Com LLB

17

Kapil Sibal

62

Delhi (Chandni Chowk)

LLM (Harvard)

18

Ambika Soni

68

Punjab

B.A. (Hons.) 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. LLB Ph.D BA, LLB (Shimla) B Com MA, MPhil. B.Sc., LL.B. from (A N College, Patna and Ranchi University) B.A.,LL.B. Educated at Lucknow University, Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh B.A. BSc, LLB MBA B. Com, M.B.A. Educated at St. Xavier`s College, Calcutta University and University of Texas, USA B.Tech., M.S. and Graduate Study Educated at I.I.T., Bombay, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. and M.I.T., U.S.A. B.A. (Presidency College, Chennai)[1] Intermediate (D.A.V. College, Kanpur)[2]

19

Salman Khurshid

Minister of Law and Justice Minister of Minority Affairs

58

Farrukhabad(Farrukhabad)

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

Mallikarjun Kharge C. P. Joshi Anand Sharma Praful Patel Kumari Selja Subodh Kant Sahay Beni Prasad Verma G K Vasan Pavan Kumar Bansal Mukul Wasnik

Minister of Labour and Employment Minister of Road Transport and Highways Minister of Commerce and Industry Ministry of Textiles Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

68 60 57 53

Karnataka(Gulbarga) Rajasthan(Bhilwara) Himachal Pradesh Maharashtra(BhandaraGondiya) Haryana(Ambala) Jharkhand(Ranchi) Uttar Pradesh(Gonda) Tamil Nadu Chandigarh, Chandigarh Maharashtra(Ramtek)

Minister of Culture and Minister of Housing 48 and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister of Tourism Minister of Steel Minister of Shipping Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Minister of Railways 59 70 46 62 50

30

Dinesh Trivedi

61

West Bengal(Barrackpore)

31

Jairam Ramesh

Minister of Rural Development

57

Andhra Pradesh

32 33

M. K. Azhagiri Shriprakash Jaiswal

Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister of Coal

60 66

Tamil Nadu(Madurai) Uttar Pradesh(Kanpur)

[edit]Ministers

of State (Independent Charges)

A 'Minister of State with independent charge' is a junior Minister in the Federal (State) or Central Government of India but is in charge of a ministry, unlike Minister of State who is also a junior Minister but assists a cabinet minister. All the following seven ministers are from the Indian National Congress.
Sl. No. Name 1 2 3 4 Srikant Kumar Jena Dinsha Patel Krishna Tirath K. V. Thomas Responsible Ministries Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Minister of State of the Ministry of Mines Minister of State of the Ministry of Women and Child Development Minister of State of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution 60 73 55 64 Age Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha, Balasore, Orissa Lok Sabha, Gujarat(Kaira) Educational Qualification B.A. Educated at College, Utkal University, Cuttack, Orissa Matriculate

Lok Sabha, North West Delhi M.A., B.Ed. (University of Delhi) (SC) (Delhi) Lok Sabha, Ernakulam, Kerala M.Sc.(Chemistry)

5 6 7

Ajay Maken shrimathi Jayanthi Natarajan Paban Singh Ghatowar

Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Minister of State of the Ministry of Environment and Forests Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region

47 58 61

Lok Sabha, Delhi Rajya Sabha, Andhra Pradesh Lok Sabha, Dibrugarh

B.A (University of Delhi) B.A., B.L. Educated at Ethiraj College and Madras Law College B.A.

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of State
Age Ministries Ministry of External Affairs Ministry of Home Affairs Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Planning Ministry of Commerce and Industry Ministry of Human Resource Development Ministry of Railways Ministry of Textiles Ministry of Finance Ministry of Defence Ministry of Urban Development Ministry of Finance Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas 37 63 Lok Sabha Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh Lok Sabha, Dum Dum Lok Sabha Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu BE from Andhra University, India & MBA from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA M.Sc., Ll.B. 71 66 63 38 51 Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Malappuram, Kerala Lok Sabha Vadakara,Kerala Lok Sabha Puduchery Lok Sabha Guna,M.P Lok Sabha, Vishakapattnam AP Lok Sabha Kolar, Karnataka Lok Sabha Nellore,Andhra Pradesh MBA, Stanford University, U.S.A BA Educational Qualification BA, LLB MA, LLB

Name 1 2 3 4 5 6. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 17 E.Ahamed Ramachandran V. Narayanasamy Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia Daggubati Purandeswari K. H. Muniyappa Lakshmi Panabaka Namo Narain Meena Mallipudi Mangapathi Pallam Raju Saugata Roy S. S. Palanimanickam Jitin Prasada

Sai Prathap Annayyagari Ministry of Steel Preneet Kaur Gurudas Kamat Ministry of External Affairs Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Ministry of Labour and Employment Lok Sabha Mumbai NorthWest,Maharashtra

18

Harish Rawat

Uttrakhand

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki Mahadev S. Khandela Di Sisir Adhikari Sultan Ahmed Choudhury Mohan Jatua D. Napolean S. Jagathrakshakan S. Gandhiselvan Tushar Amarsinh Chaudhary Sachin Pilot Mukul Roy

Ministry of Power Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Ministry of Rural Development Ministry of Tourism Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Ministry of Tribal Affairs Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Ministry of Shipping 31 57 Lok Sabha Ajmer, Rajasthan Rajya Sabha, West Bengal Wharton School, Uni. of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 47 59 Lok Sabha, Sikar, Rajasthan Lok Sabha, Barrackpore Lok Sabha, Contai Lok Sabha, Uluberia Lok Sabha, Mathurapur Lok Sabha Perambalur, Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha Namakkal, Tamil Nadu M.A, M.PHIL B.Com, M.B.A

32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

Arun Yadav Pratik Patil R. P. N. Singh Pradeep Jain Aditya Vincent Pala Agatha Sangma KC Venugopal Dr. Charan Das Mahant

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Ministry of Coal 37

Ministry of Rural Development Ministry of Water Resources Ministry of Rural Development Ministry of Power (India) Ministry of Agriculture and Food Processing Industry

47

Lok Sabha, Jhansi

L.L.B

28 47

Lok Sabha Tura, Meghalaya Lok Sabha Alappuzha, Kerala Lok Sabha Korba, Chhattisgarh Msc

[edit]Demographics [edit]UPA

of the Council of Ministers

Cabinet by Party
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Source: Various news organizations

The new United Progressive Alliance (UPA) included 79 members, 78 members in the cabinet plus Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The first 20 cabinet ministers including Manmohan Singh, swore in on 22 May 2009, while the other 59 cabinet members swore in on 27 May 2009. The 6 non-Congress cabinet ministers, include Dayanidhi Maran (DMK President Karunanidhi's Grand Son), and M.K. Azhagiri (DMK President Karunanidhi's Son) from the DMK. Mamta Banerjee from Trinamool Congress, Sharad Pawar from Nationalist Congress Party and Farooq Abdullah from National Conference represent the other non-Congress cabinet ministers.
Party Cabinet Ministers Ministers of State Total

Indian National Congress

27

31

58

Trinamool Congress

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Nationalist Congress Party

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference 1

Indian Union Muslim League

Total [edit]United

33

45

78

Progressive Alliance Cabinet by States

Sources:

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State

Cabinet Ministers Ministers of State (I) Ministers of State Total

Maharashtra

12

Tamil Nadu

10

Bihar

10

Kerala

Andhra Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Karnataka

B.B

Himachal Pradesh 1

Meghalaya

Orissa

Chhattisgarh

Jharkhand

Rajasthan [edit]