List of current ministers in India 2012

Prime Minister and also in-charge of minister : Manmohan Singh

Minister of Finance : Manmohan Singh (Pranab resigned as FM for the Presidential elections)

Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Food Processing Industries : Sharad Pawer

Minister of Defense : A.K.Antony



Minister of Home Affairs : P.chidambaram

Minister of External Affairs : S.M Krishna

Minister of Micro.Small and Medium enterprises : Virbhadra Singh

Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences : Vilasro Deshmukh

Minister of health and Family Welfare : Ghulam Nabi Azad

Minister of Power : Sushilkumar Shinde

Minister of Corporate Affairs : M.Veerappa Molly

Minister of New and Renewable Energy : Farooq Adbullah

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas : S.jaipal reddy

Minister of urban Development : Kamal Nath

Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and Minister of Civil Aviation : Vayalar Ravi

Minister of Information and Broadcasting : Mrs. Ambika Soni

Minister of Labour and Employment : Mallikarjun Kharge

Minister of Human resources Development/Information Technology : Kapil Sibal

Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Textiles : Anand Sharma

Minister of Road Transport and Highways : C.P. Joshi

Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Minister of Culture : MS.Selja

Minister of Tourism : Subodh Kant Sahay

Minister of Shipping : G.K. Vasan

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Water Resources : Pawan Kumar Bansal

Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment : Mukul Wasnik

Minister of Chemical fertilizers : M.K.Alagri

Minister of Heavy Industries and Public enterprises : Parful Patel

Minister of Coal : ShriPrakash Jaiswal

Minister of Law and Justice and Minister of Monitor Affairs : Salman Kursheed

Minister of Tribal Affairs and Minister of Panchayati Raj : V.Kishore Chandra Deo

Minister of Steel : Beni Prasad Verma

Minister of Railways : Dinesh Trivedi

Minister of Rural Development : Jairam Ramesh

Updation: from 28th oct -2012

Salman Khurshid : New External Affairs Minister 

Veerappa Moily : Petroleum portfolio

Pawan Kumar Bansal : Railways 

S Jaipal Reddy : Science and Technology and Earth Sciences.

Kamal Nath : Urban Development portfolio. 

Harish Rawat : Water Resources

Shashi Tharoor : MoS(Minister of State) in Human Resources Development

Chiranjeevi : MoS with Independent charge in the Ministry of Tourism 

Manish Tewari : I&B(Information and Broad casting)

Former Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman and veteran leader from Karnataka K Rahman Khan :  Minority Affairs Minister

Khurshid : External Affairs Ministry 

Dinsha Patel : Cabinet Minister in Mines Ministry 

Tariq Anwar of NCP : Minister of State.

Jyotiraditya Scindia : Power and Sachin Pilot : Corporate Affairs, both of which were held by Moily in Cabinet rank. 

Jitendra Singh : Youth and Sports Affairs.

M M Pallam Raju : HRD portfolio 

Ashwani Kumar : upgraded to the Cabinet rank and given the charge of the Law Ministry 

Harish Rawat : Cabinet Minister for Water Resources.

Dinsha Patel : Cabinet Minister in the Mines Ministry 

Ajay Maken : Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.

K H Muniyappa : Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) 

Bharatsinh Solanki : Drinking Water and Sanitation with Independent charge.

D Purandeswari : Commerce and Industry 

Jitin Prasada : Defence and HRD

S Jagathrakshakan : New and Renewable Energy  

K C Venugopal : Civil Aviation

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajiv Shukla who gets additional charge of Planning.

MoS External Affairs E Ahamed has shed the additional charge of HRD

R P N Singh has been shifted from Petroleum to Home.

Cabinet Minister Vayalar Ravi retains Overseas Indian Affairs

Kapil Sibal Communications and IT 

Jairam Ramesh Rural Development 

Selja Social Justice and Empowerment.

The new faces who have been inducted as MoS:

K Suresh (Labour and Employment)

Tariq Anwar (Agriculture and Food Processing Industries) 

K J Suryaprakash Reddy (Railways) 

Ranee Narah (Tribal Affairs) 

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhry (Railways) 

A H Khan Chowdhry (Health and Family Welfare) 

S Satyanarayana (Road Transport and Highways) 

Ninong Ering (Minority Affairs) 

Deepa Dasmunsi (Urban Development) 

P Balram Naik (Social Justice and Empowerment) 

K Kruparani (Communications and IT)

Lalchand Kataria (Defence).

Railways portfolio was being held by C P Joshi as additional charge since Trinamool Congress quit the government last month.