List of Cabinet Ministers of India 2020

Cabinet Ministers of India 2020

The council of ministers gets to lead all the ministries. The cabinet minister gets help from officials of specific departments in terms of data and decision making. They assist in developing the policy and getting it implemented as well. At times the cabinet minister does not have a ministry to head, yet he/she will be the minister without a portfolio. The cabinet ministers get called as

Junior ministers
Ministers of state

The cabinet minister ceases to hold the post in the following circumstances

In case of death of the minister
Resignation
Dismissed by the president for unconstitutional acts
Violating the law, dismissal as directed by the judiciary
No longer eligible to be the member of the parliament

These cabinet ministers are responsible for the lower house of the state, the House of People (Lok Sabha) because they have been elected by the people to represent them in the parliament. A minister can present a bill to be passed in the Lok sabha, the failure of which gets attributed to the entire council of ministers.

If the cabinet ministers of a particular ruling party lose the confidence motion in Lok sabha, they would tender their resignation to the president and facilitate the formation of a new government. A lone minister cannot decide without consulting the cabinet members if there has to be a proclamation of an emergency. The minister has to submit it in writing to the President of India for taking the needful action.

According to the constitution, the number of the council of ministers should not exceed 15% of the total number of members that are present in the Lok Sabha. For them to be a cabinet minister, they should be

Members of parliament
Of either house(upper or lower)
Have to be a member for at least six months

If the above criteria don’t get complied with, the cabinet minister is stripped off his post in immediate effect.

The functions or duties of a cabinet minister are

The minister has to make decisions concerning national issues and also direct the government policies towards them.

Discussing the national problems in the parliament and finding solutions to them

The presentation of bills on behalf of the respective government departments

The duty of the ministers includes looking into the security of the country, foreign affairs, and the good economic health of the nation.

The cabinet ministers will be acting as heads of various administrative departments of which they would have to take care of the day to day progress.

The cabinet of ministers has the power to get the law passed in both the houses of the parliament. In the same fashion, they also oppose the bill from getting adopted. In short, they have the power to make laws that will get implemented to the entire country.

The cabinet has the final decision in matters of finance by preparing a

budget for the entire financial year
to propose taxes
the expenditures get made
allocation of resources

Finally, it has to be noted that a majority party elected and chosen by the prime minister can make it to the cabinet berth.

List of Cabinets Ministers of India 2020

Some of the present cabinet ministers holding various portfolios

Portfolio	Name of the minister
Minister of personnel, public grievances, and pensions, department of atomic energy, department of space	Prime minister Narendra Modi
Minister of Defence	Rajnath Singh
Minister of Home affairs	Amit Shah
Minister of Finance and minister of corporate affairs	Nirmala Sitaraman
Minister of external affairs	Subramanyam Jaishankar
Minister of road transport and highways, Minister of micro, small and medium enterprises	Nitin Gadkari
Minister of textiles, Minister of women and child development	Smriti Irani
Minister of railways and Minister of commerce and industry	Piyush Goyal
Minister of law and justice, minister of communications, minister of electronics and information technology	Ravi Shankar Prasad
Minister of environment, forest and climate change, minister of information and broadcasting, minister of heavy industries and public enterprises	Prakash Javadekar

FAQ- Cabinet of Ministers of India 2020

Q. Who is the head of Union Council of Ministers?

Prime Minister is the head of the Union Council of Ministers.

Q. How many council of ministers are there in India?

The Union Council of Ministers consists of senior ministers, called ‘cabinet ministers’, junior ministers, called ‘ministers of state’ and, rarely, deputy ministers. It is led by the Prime Minister.

Q. What are the three categories of Council of Ministers?

The three categories of Ministers in the Union Council of Ministers are :

1. The Cabinet Ministers

2. Ministers of State

3. Deputy Ministers

Q. Who is a Cabinet Minister?

A Cabinet Minister is in charge of a particular ministry like Education, Heatlh, Home, Foreign etc.