Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman takes charge as the Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman assumed charge as the Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs here today. She was greeted at the office in North Block by Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs designate, Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, Finance Secretary Shri Subhash Chandra Garg and other Secretaries of the Ministry. Smt. Sitharaman is the first woman appointed as the full-time Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs.
After assuming the charge, the Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs was briefed on the key initiatives and policy issues by the Secretaries of the different departments of the Ministry of Finance & Corporate Affairs and was apprised of the ongoing issues and the forthcoming challenges facing the Indian economy among others.
BRIEF PROFILE:
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman has served as the Union Defence Minister since 2017. She is currently a Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) from Karnataka. In 2014, she was elected as Rajya Sabha MP from Andhra Pradesh. She has also served as the Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs and later the Minister for Commerce and Industry with Independent Charge.
As the Defence Minister, Smt. Sitharaman is credited with expediting the decision-making process relating to procurement in defence sector. She constituted a Defence Planning Committee to formulate an “action plan” to effectively overcome with various security challenges facing the nation.
Smt. Sitharaman joined the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in 2008 and has served as a national spokesperson for the party since 2010.
Smt. Sitharaman was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, on August 18, 1959. She completed her graduation from Seethalakshmi Ramasamy College, Tiruchirappalli and obtained her M.A. (Economics) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed the allocation of portfolios among the following members of the Union Council of Ministers:-
Shri Narendra Modi |
Prime Minister and also in-charge of: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; and All important policy issues; and All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister. |
Cabinet Ministers
1. |
Shri Raj Nath Singh |
Minister of Defence. |
2. |
Shri Amit Shah |
Minister of Home Affairs. |
3. |
Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari |
Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. |
4. |
Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda |
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers. |
5. |
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman |
Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs. |
6. |
Shri Ramvilas Paswan |
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. |
7. |
Shri Narendra Singh Tomar |
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj. |
8. |
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad |
Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology. |
9. |
Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal |
Minister of Food Processing Industries. |
10. |
Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot |
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment. |
11. |
Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar |
Minister of External Affairs. |
12. |
Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ |
Minister of Human Resource Development. |
13. |
Shri Arjun Munda |
Minister of Tribal Affairs. |
14. |
Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani |
Minister of Women and Child Development; and Minister of Textiles. |
15. |
Dr. Harsh Vardhan |
Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences. |
16. |
Shri Prakash Javadekar |
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting. |
17. |
Shri Piyush Goyal |
Minister of Railways; and Minister of Commerce and Industry. |
18. |
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan |
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel. |
19. |
Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi |
Minister of Minority Affairs. |
20. |
Shri Pralhad Joshi |
Minister of Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines. |
21. |
Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey |
Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. |
22. |
Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant |
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise. |
23. |
Shri Giriraj Singh |
Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. |
24. |
Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat |
Minister of Jal Shakti. |
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
Ministers of State
1. |
Shri Faggansingh Kulaste |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel. |
2. |
Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. |
3. |
Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. |
4. |
General (Retd.) V. K. Singh |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. |
5. |
Shri Krishan Pal |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. |
6. |
Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. |
7. |
Shri G. Kishan Reddy |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs. |
8. |
Shri Parshottam Rupala |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. |
9. |
Shri Ramdas Athawale |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. |
10. |
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development. |
11. |
Shri Babul Supriyo |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. |
12. |
Shri Sanjeev Kumar Balyan |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. |
13. |
Shri Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development; Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. |
14. |
Shri Anurag Singh Thakur |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. |
15. |
Shri Angadi Suresh Channabasappa |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways. |
16. |
Shri Nityanand Rai |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs. |
17. |
Shri Rattan Lal Kataria |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. |
18. |
Shri V. Muraleedharan |
Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. |
19. |
Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. |
20. |
Shri Som Parkash |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. |
21. |
Shri Rameswar Teli |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries. |
22. |
Shri Pratap Chandra Sarangi |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries. |
23. |
Shri Kailash Choudhary |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. |
24. |
Sushri Debasree Chaudhuri |
Minister of State in the Ministry of Women and Child Development. |