Modi takes charge; his Cabinet now official

On arriving to his South Block office, Modi laid rose petals and bowed before a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, then sat at his table and signed official papers.

He also paid a tribute to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who died on May 27, 1964.

"I pay my tributes to our 1st Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his Punya Tithi," he tweeted.

Meanwhile, the portfolios of Modi's 45-member council of ministers were formally announced on Tuesday morning.

CABINET MINISTERS
 
1. Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs
 
2. Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
 
3. Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Defence
 
4. M Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development Housing, Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
 
5. Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport, Highways Shipping
 
6. D V Sadananda Gowda: Railways

7. Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
 
8. Dr Najma A Heptulla: Minority Affairs
    
9. Gopinath Munde: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
     
10. Ram Vilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
     
11. Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
     
12. Maneka Gandhi: Women and Child Development
     
13. Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers
     
14. Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology, Law and Justice
     
15. Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation
    
16. Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
     
17. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
     
18. Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines Steel Labour and Employment
     
19. Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
     
20. Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture
     
21. Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment
     
22. Smriti Irani: Human Resource Development
     
23. Dr Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare
     
MINISTERS OF STATE
 
1. General VK Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
 
2. Inderjit Singh Rao Planning (Independent Charge) Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge) Defence
 
3. Santosh Kumar Gangwar Textiles (Independent Charge) Parliamentary Affairs Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
 
4. Shripad Yesso Naik    Culture (Independent Charge)
Tourism (Independent Charge)
 
5.  Dharmendra Pradhan    Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
 
Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
                     
6. Sarbananda Sonowal    Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
 
7. Prakash Javadekar    Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge) Environment, Forest and Climate Change                                 (Independent Charge) Parliamentary Affairs
 
8. Piyush Goyal    Power (Independent  Charge) Coal (Independent Charge) New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)               
 
9. Dr.Jitendra Singh: Science and Technology (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences (Independent Charge) Prime  Minister Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Departmentof Space
 
10. Nirmala Sitharaman    Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge) Finance Corporate Affairs
 
11. G.M. Siddeshwara    Civil Aviation
 
12. Manoj Sinha    Railways
 
13. Nihalchand    Chemicals and Fertilizers
 
14. Upendra Kushwaha    Rural Development Panchayati Raj Drinking Water and Sanitation
 
15. Radhakrishnan P    Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
 
16. Kiren Rijiju    Home Affairs
 
17. Krishan Pal    Road Transport and Highways Shipping
 
18. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan    Agriculture Food Processing Industries
 
19. Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava Tribal Affairs

20. Raosaheb Dadarao Danve    Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

21. Vishnu Deo Sai    Mines Steel Labour and Employment
 
22. Sudarshan Bhagat    Social Justice and Empowerment