Cabinet Ministers (as on 20.03.2012)

S.No.	Name	Portfolio
1	Dr. Manmohan Singh	Prime Minister and also in-charge of the Ministries/Departments not specifically allocated to the charge of any Minister viz.: (i) Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; (ii) Ministry of Planning; (iii) Department of Atomic Energy; and (iv) Department of Space.
2	Shri Pranab Mukherjee	Minister of Finance.
3	Shri Sharad Pawar	Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Food Processing Industries.
4	Shri A.K. Antony	Minister of Defence.
5	Shri P. Chidambaram	Minister of Home Affairs.
6	Shri S.M. Krishna	Minister of External Affairs.
7	Shri Virbhadra Singh	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
8	Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh	Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences.
9	Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad	Minister of Health and Family Welfare.
10	Shri Sushilkumar Shinde	Minister of Power.
11	Shri M. Veerappa Moily	Minister of Corporate Affairs.
12	Dr. Farooq Abdullah	Minister of New and Renewable Energy.
13	Shri S. Jaipal Reddy	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
14	Shri Kamal Nath	Minister of Urban Development.
15	Shri Ajit Singh	Minister of Civil Aviation
16	Shri Vayalar Ravi	Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs
17	Smt. Ambika Soni	Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
18	Shri Mallikarjun Kharge	Minister of Labour and Employment.
19	Shri Kapil Sibal	Minister of Human Resource Development and Minister of Communications and Information Technology
20	Shri Anand Sharma	Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Textiles.
21	Shri C.P. Joshi	Minister of Road Transport and Highways.
22	Kumari Selja	Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Minister of Culture.
23	Shri Subodh Kant Sahay	Minister of Tourism.
24	Shri G.K. Vasan	Minister of Shipping.
25	Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Water Resources.
26	Shri Mukul Wasnik	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
27	Shri M.K. Alagiri	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
28	Shri Praful Patel	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
29	Shri Shriprakash Jaiswal	Minister of Coal.
30	Shri Salman Khursheed	Minister of Law and Justice and Minister of Minority Affairs.
31	Shri V. Kishore Chandra Deo	Minister of Tribal Affairs and Minister of Panchayati Raj.
32	Shri Beni Prasad Verma	Minister of Steel.
33	Shri Jairam Ramesh	Minister of Rural Development and Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
34	Shri Mukul Roy	Minister of Railways.