ET Graphics: What do the Ministers have in hand as they form new Cabinet under PM Modi

By retaining key members from his previous council of ministers, PM has signalled continuity at the top while bringing in fresh faces. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has additional charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space. Read More: Modi Cabinet portfolios allocated; Sitharaman retains finance ministry, Jaishankar to serve as EAM again

Here are your new Cabinet Ministers:

RAJNATH SINGH:
Business at Hand:

• Addressing concerns over the armed forces recruitment scheme Agnipath
• Ensuring peace and security on the border with China
• Pushing through big reforms in Defence Research & Development Organisation and public sector entities

AMIT SHAH
Business at Hand:

• Resolving the ongoing Manipur conflict
• Implementation of three new criminal lawsacross the country from July 1
• Holding assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir before the Supreme Court deadline of Sept 30

NITIN GADKARI:
Business at Hand:

• Attracting private sector investment in infrastructure
• Ensuring govt spending continues to be high or at least at the same rate
• Substantially reducing road accidentsand fatalities

PRALHAD JOSHI
Business at Hand:

• Managing volatile food inflationwhile ensuring remunerative prices for farmers
• Ensuring500 GW of renewable capacity by 2030; supply chain stability
• Working ongrid stability

JITAN RAM MANJHI
Business at Hand:

• Improving credit flow,tech upgradation Resolving payment time period issues
• Ensuring MSMEs get bigger in size and come on par with other countries’ enterprises

SARBANANDA SONOWAL
Business at Hand:

• Boosting private participation in ports, shipbuilding Greening of portsand shipping sector
• Addressing tariff-related discrepancies at ports

JP NADDA
Business at Hand:

• Restructuring Ayushman Bharat Yojanaand overseeing its expansion
• Universal and affordable health coverage through increased govt spending, cheaper drugs and strengthening infra
• Reducing API import dependence

SHIVRAJ SINGH CHOUHAN
Business at Hand:

• Raising farmers’ incometo address rural distress; boosting oilseeds and pulses production to reduce import dependence
• Streamlining rural jobs guarantee scheme and plugging leakages
• Promoting climate-resistant farming and modernising agricultural practices

NIRMALA SITHARAMAN
Business at Hand:

• Sustaining growth momentum, fiscal discipline and creating jobs
• Bringing in land, labour, farm and tax reforms to aid private investment
• Ensuring greater privatisation and asset monetisation, easier credit flow

ASHWINI VAISHNAW
Business at Hand:

• Continuing rapid rail infra development; bringing private investment; faster monetisation
• Implementing semiconductor manufacturing plans

JYOTIRADITYA SCINDIA
Business at Hand:

• Overseeing second 5G spectrum auctionthat starts June 25
• Ensuring a 3 private player market, returning BSNL to health
• Finalising rules around pricing, allocation of satellite spectrum; notification of rules under Telecommunications Act, 2023

BHUPENDER YADAV
Business at Hand:

• Securing international climate finance and tech transfer for energy transition ahead of the Baku climate conference

S JAISHANKAR
Business at Hand:

• Managing ties with China, which hit a nadir in 2020 after a clash between Indian and Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley Boosting economic diplomacy and trade pacts
• Navigating geopolitical complexities in a sharply polarised world

MANOHAR LAL KHATTAR
Business at Hand:

• Capacity additionto meet sharply rising electricity demand
• Extension and strengthening of transmissionsystem Achieving PMAY (Urban) houses target by December 31

HD KUMARASWAMY
Business at Hand:

• Overseeing implementation of auto and battery PLI Addressing concerns related to FAME; attracting foreign capital under new EV policy
• Looking at the steel dumping issue, Europe’s new import taxes

PIYUSH GOYAL
Business at Hand:

• Taking exports to $2 trillion by 2030 amid geopolitical uncertainty
• Pushing PLI laggards such as auto products, ACC batteries, speciality steel
• Negotiating complicated FTAs with the UK, the EU

ANNPURNA DEVI
Business at Hand:

• Improving female participation in workforce
• Effective utilisation of the Nirbhaya Fund Making the Women and Child helpline more effective

HARDEEP SINGH PURI
Business at Hand:

• Increasing domestic oil production to cut import dependence
• Bringing natural gas under GST and other reforms
• Ensuring adequate ethanol supply

MANSUKH MANDAVIYA
Business at Hand:

• Implementing all 4 Labour Codes across India in one go
• Significantly reducing compliances to aid formalisation of workforce
• Bringing Delhi, Bengal and Tamil Nadu on board on Labour Codes

DHARMENDRA PRADHAN
Business at Hand:

• Ensuring full implementation of National Education Policy, 2020
• Bringing in foreign varsities
• Restructuring higher education with a single and more enabling regulator

KINJARAPU RAM MOHAN NAIDU
Business at Hand:

• Taking a call on opening up bilateral air traffic rights
• Ensuring viability of the regional connectivity scheme; making sure the aviation sector is viable but affordable
• Privatisation of 12 airportsand capacity augmentation in existing ones

CHIRAG PASWAN
Business at Hand:

• Encouraging public, private investment in post-harvest infrastructure
• Modernising the fragmented infrastructure
• Improving access to financefor food processing SMEs

G KISHAN REDDY
Business at Hand:

• Increasing coal output in tandem with rising power, other sectors’ demand
• Dealing with land possession-related issues emerging at mines
• Forming a long-term plan for the coal sector, diversification

OTHER CABINET MINISTERS: