Cabinet ministers

8226; P. Chidambaram – Finance

8226; Pranab Mukherjee – Defence

8226; Arjun Singh – HRD

8226; Sharad Pawar – Agriculture, Food and Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution

8226; Laloo Prasad Yadav – Railways

8226; Shivraj Patil – Home

8226; Ram Vilas Paswan – Chemicals and Fertilisers, Steel

8226; Ghulam Nabi Azad – Parliamentary Affairs, Urban Development

8226; S. Jaipal Reddy – I038;B, Culture

8226; Sis Ram Ola – Labour and Employment

8226; Mahavir Prasad – Small Scale, Agro and Rural

8226; P.R. Kyndiah – Tribal affairs, Development of NE

8226; T.R. Baalu – Road Transport and Highways

8226; Shankersinh Vaghela – Textiles

8226; Natwar Singh – External Affairs

8226; Kamal Nath – Commerce and Industry

8226; H.R. Bhardwaj – Law and Justice

8226; P.M. Sayeed – Power

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh – Rural Development

P.R. Dasmunsi – Water Resources

Mani Shankar Aiyar – Petroleum and Natural gas, Panchayati Raj

Sunil Dutt – Youth Affairs and Sports

Shibu Soren – Coal, minies and minerals

A. Raja – Environment and Forest

Dayanidhi Maran – Communication and IT

Meira Kumar – Social Justice and Empowerment

K Chandra Shekar Rao – Shipping.

Anbumani Ramadoss – Health and Family Welfare

Ministers of state

E. Ahmed – External Affairs

Suresh Pachauri – Personnel, Parliamentary Affairs

B.K. Handique – Defence, Parliamentary Affairs

P. Lakshmi – Health and Family Welfare

Dasari Narayan Rao – Coal and Mines

Shaqeel Ahmed – Communications 038; IT

Rao Indrajit Singh – External Affairs

Naranbhai Rathwa – Railways

Rehman Khan – Chemicals and Fertilizers

K.H. Muniappa – Road Transport and Highways

M.V. Rajashekharan – Planning

Kantilal Bhuria – Agriculture, food and civil supplies, consumer affairs and public distribution

Manik Rao Gavit – Home Affairs

Sri Prakash Jaiswal – Home Affairs

Prithviraj Chavan – Prime Ministers Office

Taslimuddin – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Suryakanta Patil – Rural Development, Parliamentary Affairs

Md. A.A. Fatmi – HRD

A. Narendra – Rural development

R. Velu – Railways

S.S. Palanimanikkam – Commerce and Industry

S. Regupathy – Home Affairs

K. Venkatapathy – Law and Justice

S. Jagadeesan – Social Justice and Empowerment

E.V.K. S. Elangovan – Petroleum and Natural Gas

Kanti Singh – HRD

N. Narayan Meena – Environment and Forests

Jayaprakash Narayan Yadav – Water resources

Akhilesh Singh – Agriculture, food and civil supplies, consumer affairs and public distribution

Independent charge

Santosh Mohan Deb – Heavy industries and Public Enterprises

Jagdish Tytler – Non-Resident Affairs

Oscar Fernandes – Statistics and programme implementation

Renuka Choudhury – Tourism

Subodh Kant Sahay – Food Processing

Kapil Sibal – Science and Technology, Ocean Development

Vilas Muttemwar – Non-conventional energy sources

Kumari Selja – Urban employment and Poverty alleviation

Praful Patel – Civil Aviation

Prem Chand Gupta – Company Affairs