List of the council of Ministers

25 May 2004

Cabinet Ministers
P Chidambaram	Finance
Pranab Mukherjee	Defence
Arjun Singh	HRD
Sharad Pawar	Agriculture, Food and Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution
Laloo Prasad Yadav	Railways
Shivraj Patil	Home
Ram Vilas Paswan	Chemicals and Fertilizers, Steel
Ghulam Nabi Azad	Parliamentary Affairs, Urban Development
S Jaipal Reddy	Information and Broadcasting, Culture
Sis Ram Ola	Labour and Employment
Mahavir Prasad	Small Scale, Agro and Rural Industries
P R Kyndiah	Tribal affiars, Development of NE
T R Baalu	Road Transport and Highways and Shipping
ShankerSinh Vaghela	Textiles
Natwar Singh	External Affairs
Kamal Nath	Commerce and Industries
H R Bhardwaj	Law and Justice
P M Sayeed	Power
Raghuvansh Prasad	Rural Development
P R Dasmunsi	Water Resources
Mani Shankar Aiyer	Petroleum and Natural Gas, Panchayati Raj
Sunil Dutt	Sports and Youth Affairs
Shibu Soren	Coal, Mines and Minerals
A Raja	Forests and Environment
Dayanidhi Maran	Communication and IT
Meira Kumar	Social Justice and Empowerment
K Chandra shekhar Rao	Minister without portfolio
Anbumani Ramadoss	Health and Family Welfare
Ministers of State
E Ahmed	External Affairs
Suresh Pachauri	Personnel, Parliamentary Affairs
B K Handique	Defence, Parliamentary Affairs
P Lakshmi	Health and Family Welfare
Dasari Narayan Rao	Coal and Mines
Shaqeel Ahmed	Communications and IT
Rao Indrajit Singh	External Affairs
Naranbhai Rathwa	Railways
Rehman Khan	Chemicals and fertilizers
K H Muniappa	Road Transport and Highways
M V Rajashekharan	Planning
Kantilal Bhuria	Agriculture, Food and Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution
Manik Rao Gavit	Home Affairs
Sri Prakash Jaiswal	Home Affairs
Prithviraj Chavan	Prime Ministers Office
Mohammed Taslimuddin	Minister of state for Home Affairs
Suryakanta Patil	Rural Development, Parliamentary Affairs
Md A A Fatmi	HRD
A Narendra	Rural Development
R Velu	Railways
S S Palanimanikkam	Commerce and Industry
S Regupathy	Home Affairs
K Venkatapathy	Law and Justice
S Jagadeesan	Social Justice and Empowerment
E V K S Elangovan	Petroleum and Natural Gas
Kanti Singh	HRD
N Narayan Meena	Environment and Forests
Jayaprakash Narayan Yadav	Water resources
Akhilesh Singh	Agriculture, food and civil supplies, consumer affairs and public distribution
Sontosh Mohan Dev	Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise
Jagdish Tytler	Non-Resident Affairs
Oscar Fernandes	Statistics and Programmes Implementation
Renuka Choudhary	Tourism
Subodh Kant Sahay	Food Processing
Independent Charges
Kapil Sibal	Science and Technology, Ocean Development
Vilas Muttemwar	Non-Conventional Energy Sources
Kumari Selja	Urban employment and Poverty Alleviation
Praful Patel	Civil Aviation
Prem Chand Gupta	Company Affairs