Cabinet portfolio allocation: Nirmala Sitharaman gets finance again, Piyush Goyal retains commerce; check full list

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 71 other ministers took oath to office, the cabinet portfolios were allocated to the newly sworn-in ministers on Monday, June 10.

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nirmala Sitharaman, who was heading the finance ministry in the previous government, has been again assigned the key portfolio.

Her party colleague Piyush Goyal has also retained his ministerial portfolio of commerce.

Agriculture, seen as a key ministry in view of the multiple agrarian agitations over the past couple of years, has been allocated to former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

Meanwhile, the top ministries of home and cooperation have been re-assigned to Amit Shah; defence has been re-allotted to Rajnath Singh; and Nitin Gadkari will continue as the minister for road transport.

Here's the full list of Union ministers and their portfolios:

• Amit Shah: Minister of Cooperation; Minister of Home Affairs
• Rajnath Singh: Minister of Defence
• Bhupender Yadav: Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
• Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya: Minister of Labour and Employment; Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
• Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs
• Annpurna Devi: Minister of Women and Child Development
• G. Kishan Reddy: Minister of Coal; Minister of Mines
• Giriraj Singh: Minister of Textiles
• HD Kumaraswamy: Minister of Heavy Industries; Minister of Steel
• Hardeep Singh Puri: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
• Jagat Prakash Nadda: Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
• Jitan Ram Manjhi: Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
• Jual Oram: Minister of Tribal Affairs
• Kiren Rijiju: Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Minority Affairs
• Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu: Minister of Civil Aviation
• Manohar Lal Khattar: Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs; Minister of Power
• Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance; Minister of Corporate Affairs
• Nitin Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport and Highways
• Piyush Goyal: Minister of Commerce and Industry
• Pralhad Joshi: Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; Minister of New and Renewable Energy
• Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh: Minister of Panchayati Raj; Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
• Rajnath Singh: Minister of Defence
• Sarbananda Sonowal: Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
• Shivraj Singh Chouhan: Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development
• Ashwini Vaishnaw: Minister of Railways; Minister of Information and Broadcasting; Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
• Chirag Paswan: Minister of Food Processing Industries
• Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism
• Jyotiraditya M Scindia: Minister of Communications; Minister of Development of North Eastern Region
• Dr. Virendra Kumar: Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment

Here's the full list of MoS (Independent Charge) and their portfolios:

• Dr Jitendra Singh: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Science and Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences; Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State in the Department of Space
• Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Ayush; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
• Rao Inderjit Singh: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture
• Jayant Chaudhary: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Education
• Arjun Ram Meghwal: Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Law and Justice; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

Here's the full list of Minister of State and their portfolios:

• Dr L Murugan: Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
• Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma: Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel
• B L Verma: Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
• Shantanu Thakur: Minister of State in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
• Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya: Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
• Sukanta Majumdar: Minister of State in the Ministry of Education; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
• Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani: Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications
• Harsh Malhotra: Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
• Bhagirath Choudhary: Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
• George Kurian: Minister of State in the Ministry of Minority Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
• Ajay Tamta: Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
• Murlidhar Mohol: Minister of State in the Ministry of Cooperation; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation
• Shripad Yesso Naik: Minister of State in the Ministry of Power; and Minister of State in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
• Kirtivardhan Singh: Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs
• Pankaj Chaudhary: Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
• Raj Bhushan Choudhary: Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti
• Raksha Nikhil Khadse: Minister of State in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
• Durgadas Uikey: Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs
• Bandi Sanjay Kumar: Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
• Pabitra Margherita: Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Textiles
• Satish Chandra Dubey: Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Mines
• Savitri Thakur: Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development
• Ram Nath Thakur: Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
• Suresh Gopi: Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism
• Tokhan Sahu: Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
• Sanjay Seth: Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence
• Shobha Karandlaje: Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Employment
• Anupriya Patel: Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
• Nityanand Rai: Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
• Kamlesh Paswan: Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development
• Ramdas Athawale: Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
• Ravneet Singh: Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways

The new government has taken charge within a week after the results of the high-stake Lok Sabha elections were declared. The BJP of PM Modi slipped behind the halfway majority mark of 272 seats, as it won only 240 seats. The party, however, succeeded in retaining power as its allies won another 52 seats, taking the overall tally of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance to 292 seats.