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Cabinet Ministers

( As on 1st July, 2002)

The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has been pleased to direct that the allocation of portfolios among the members of the Council of Ministers will be as follows :-

Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Prime Minister and also in charge of the Ministries/Departments not specifically allocated to the charge of any Minister viz: 1. Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions 2. Planning 3. Statistics and Programme Implementation 4. Atomic Energy 5. Space
Shri L.K. Advani	Deputy Prime Minister, Home Affairs
Shri Ananth Kumar	Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation
Shri T.R. Baalu	Environment & Forests
Shri Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	Chemicals & Fertilizers
Shri George Fernandes	Defence
Shri Jagmohan	Tourism & Culture
Shri Sahib Singh Verma	Labour
Shri Murli Manohar Joshi	Human Resources Development and Science & Technology and additional Charge of Ocean Development
Shri Pramod Mahajan	Parliamentary Affairs , Information Technology, Communications
Shri Murasoli Maran	Commerce & Industry
Shri Kariya Munda	Agro and Rural Industries
Shri Ram Naik	Petroleum & Natural Gas
Shri Shanta Kumar	Rural Development
Shri Ajit Singh	Agriculture
Shri Nitish Kumar	Railways
Shri Jual Oram	Tribal Affairs
Shri Arjun Sethi	Water Resources
Shri Anant Gangaram Geete	Power
Smt. Sushma Swaraj	Information & Broadcasting
Shri Kashiram Rana	Textiles
Shri Sharad Yadav	Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Shri Jaswant Singh	Finance and Company Affairs
Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya	Social Justice & Empowerment
Shri Yashwant Sinha	External Affairs
Shri Arun Shourie	Disinvestment with additional charge of Department of Development of North Eastern Regions
Shri Shatrughan Sinha	Health & Family Welfare
Shri Ved Prakash Goyal	Shipping
Shri Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	Civil Aviation
Shri K. Jana Krishnamurthy	Law & Justice
Shri Balasaheb Vikhe Patil	Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Shri Vikram Verma	Youth Affairs & Sports
Sadhvi Uma Shree Bharti	Coal and Mines

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Shri M. Kannappan	Non-Conventional Energy Sources
Ms. Vasundhara Raje	Small Scale Industries, Minister of State in the Department of Personnel and Training, Department of Pensions and Pensioners Welfare of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Deptt. of Atomic Energy and Deptt. of Space
Shri N.T. Shanmugam	Food Processing Industries
Shri Braj Kishore Tripathi	Steel
Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri	Road Transport and Highways

Ministers of State

Shri Ramesh Bais	Information & Broadcasting
Ms. Bijoya Chakravarty	Water Resources
Shri Bandaru Dattatraya	Railways
Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar	Petroleum & Natural Gas and additional charge of Parliamentry Affairs
Dr. Vallabh Bhai Ramjibhai Kathiria	Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste	Tribal Affairs
Shri Basangouda R. Patil	Textile
Ms. Sumitra Mahajan	Communication & Information Technology
Shri Subhash Maharia	Rural Development
Ms. Jayawanti Mehta	Power
Shri Satya Brata Mookherjee	Social Justice & Empowerment
Shri Shripad Yesso Naik	Civil Aviation
Shri Omar Abdullah	External Affairs
Shri Harin Pathak	Defence (Defence Production and Supplies)
Shri U.V. Krishnamraju	Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Shri P. Radhakrishnan	Youth Affairs & Sports
Shri A. Raja	Health and Family Welfare
Shri O. Rajagopal	Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
Dr. Raman	Commerce & Industry
Shri Chennamaneni Vidya Sagar Rao	Home Affairs
Shri Bachi Singh Rawat	Department of Science & Technology
Shri Tapan Sikdar	Chemicals & Fertilizers
Shri Digvijay Singh	External Affairs
Shri V. Sreenivasa Prasad	Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Shri I.D. Swami	Home Affairs
Dr. (Smt) Rita Verma	Human Resource Development
Shri Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav	Agriculture
Shri Vijay Goel	Prime Minister's Office, Statistics & Programme Implementation
Shri Annasaheb Patil	Rural Development
Shri Ashok Pradhan	Labour
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad	Coal and Mines, Law & Justice
Shri Chaman Lal Gupta	Defence
Shri Su Thirunavukkarasar	Shipping
Shri Sanjay Paswan	Communication & Information Technology
Shri A.K. Moorthy	Railways
Shri Vinod Khanna	Tourism and Culture
Shri Shri Anandrao Vithoba Adsul	Finance and Company Affairs
Shri Nikhil Kumar Chaudhary	Agro & Rural Industries
Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy	Commerce & Industry