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Twelfth Lok Sabha
Council of Ministers


Prime Minister of India
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Ministry Wise                             Ministers of State



C ABINET M INISTERS
 
 
S.No.
Name of Minister Name of Ministry
1. Shri Lal Krishna Advani IndiaPress Affairs 
2. Shri Ananth Kumar Civil Aviation 
3. Shri Sikander Bakht Industry 
4. Shri Surjit Singh Barnala Chemicals and Fertilisers with additional charge of Food and Consumer Affairs
5. Shri George Fernandes Defence 
6. Shri Ram Krishna Hegde Commerce 
7. Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya Labour 
8. Shri Ram Jethmalani Law, Justice and Company Affairs
9. Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi Human Resource Development (excluding Department of Women and Child Developmant and Department of Youth Affairs and Sports) and Science and Technology with additional charge of Ocean Development
10. Shri P.R. Kumaramangalam Power; and Parliamentary Affairs with additional charge of Non-Conventional Energy Sources
11. Shri Nitish Kumar Railways with additional charge of Water Resources
12. Shri Naveen Patnaik Steel and Mines 
13. Shri Suresh Prabhu Environment and Forests 
14. Shri Vazhapady K. Ramamurthy Petroleum and Natural Gas 
15. Shri Kashi Ram Rana Textiles 
16. Shri Yashwant Sinha Finance 
17. Shri Pramod Mahajan Information and Broadcasting with additional charge of Food Processing Industries
18. Shri Jaswant Singh External Affairs with additional charge of Department of Electronics
19. Shri Jagmohan  Urban Development 



 
 

M INISTERS of S TATE
S.No.
Name of Minister Name of Ministry
1. Shri Omak Apang Tourism 
2. Shri Sukhbir Singh Badal Industry 
3. Shri Ramesh Bais Steel and Mines 
4. Shri Dalit Ezhilmalai Health and Family Welfare (Independent)
5. Shri Bandaru Dattatreya Department of Urban Development, Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment 
6. Smt. Maneka Gandhi Social Justice and Empowerment
7. Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Petroleum and Natural Gas with additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs
8. Shri Babu Lal Marandi Environment and Forests 
9. Shri Ram Naik Railways and IndiaPress Affairs with additional charge of Planning and Programme Implementation
10. Shri Mukhtar Naqvi Information and Broadcasting with additinal charge of Parliamentary Affairs
11. Dr. A.K. Patel Chemicals and Fertilisers 
12. Shri Babagouda Patil Rural Areas and Employment
13. Dr. Debendra Pradhan Surface Transport 
14. Shri Kabindra Purkayastha Communications 
15. Smt. Vasundhara Raje External Affairs with additional charge of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
16. Shri Dilip Ray Coal with additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs
17. Shri Sompal Agriculture with additional charge of Water Resources
18. Sadhvi Uma Shree Bharati Department of Women and Ckunwarkunwarhild Development and Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Ministry of Human Resource Development
19. Shri Satya Pal Singh Yadav Food and Consumer Affairs

 
 



 
 

M INISTRY WISE
S.No. Name of Ministry Name of Minister Status
1. Agriculture  Shri Sompal Minister of State
2. Chemicals and Fertilisers  Dr. A.K. Patel Minister of State
3. Chemicals and Fertilisers with additional charge of Food Shri Surjit Singh Barnala Cabinet Minister
4. Civil Aviation  Shri Ananth Kumar Cabinet Minister
5. Coal Shri Dilip Ray Minister of State
6. Commerce  Shri Ramakrishna Hegde Cabinet Minister
7. Communications  Shri Kabindra Purkayastha Minister of State
8. Defence  Shri George Fernandes Cabinet Minister
9. Electronics Shri Jaswant Singh Cabinet Minister
10. Environment and Forests  Shri Suresh Prabhu Cabinet Minister
11. Environment and Forests  Shri Babu Lal Marandi Minister of State
12. External Affairs  Shri Jaswant Singh Cabinet Minister
13. External Affairs  Smt. Vasundhara Raje Minister of State
14. Finance  Shri Yashwant Sinha Cabinet Minister
15. Food and Consumer Affairs Shri Satya Pal Singh Yadav Minister of State
16. Food Processing Industries Shri Pramod Mahajan Cabinet Minister
17. Health and Family Welfare Shri Dalit Ezhilmalai Minister of State
18. IndiaPress Affairs  Shri Lal Krishna Advani Cabinet Minister
19. Human Resource Development Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi Cabinet Minister
20. Human Resource Development  Sadhvi Uma Shree Bharati Minister of State
21. Industry  Shri Sikander Bakht Cabinet Minister
22. Industry  Shri Sukhbir Singh Badal Minister of State
23. Information and Broadcasting  Shri Pramod Mahajan Cabinet Minister
24. Information and Broadcasting  Shri Mukhtar Naqvi Minister of State
25. Labour  Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya Cabinet Minister
26. Law, Justice and Company Affairs  Dr. M. Thambi Durai Cabinet Minister
27. Non-Conventional Energy Sources Shri P.R. Kumaramangalam Cabinet Minister
28. Ocean Development Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi Cabinet Minister
29. Petroleum and Natural Gas  Shri Vazhapady K. Ramamurthy Cabinet Minister
30. Petroleum and Natural Gas  Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Minister of State
31. Power  Shri P.R. Kumaramangalam Cabinet Minister
32. Railways  Shri Nitish Kumar Cabinet Minister
33. Railways and IndiaPress Affairs Shri Ram Naik Minister of State
34. Rural Areas and Employment Shri Babagouda Patil Minister of State
35. Science and Technology Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi Cabinet Minister
36. Social Justice and Empowerment Smt. Maneka Gandhi Minister of State
37. Steel and Mines  Shri Naveen Patnaik Cabinet Minister
38. Steel and Mines  Shri Ramesh Bais Minister of State
39. Surface Transport  Shri Debendra Pradhan Minister of State
40. Textiles  Shri Kashi Ram Rana Cabinet Minister
41. Tourism  Shri Omak Apang Minister of State
42. Urban Development  Shri Jagmohan Cabinet Minister
43. Urban Development  Shri Bandaru Dattatreya Minister of State
44. Water Resources Shri Sompal Minister of State

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