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 Fertilisers, Steel • Ghulam Nabi Azad - Parliamentary Affairs, Urban Development • S. Jaipal Reddy - I&B, Culture • Sis Ram Ola - Labour and Employment • Mahavir Prasad - Small Scale, Agro and Rural • P.R. Kyndiah - Tribal affairs, Development of NE • T.R. Baalu - Road Transport and Highways • Shankersinh Vaghela - Textiles • Natwar Singh - External Affairs • Kamal Nath - Commerce and Industry • H.R. Bhardwaj - Law and Justice • P.M. Sayeed - Power • Raghuvansh Prasad Singh - Rural Development • P.R. Dasmunsi - Water Resources • Mani Shankar Aiyar - Petroleum and Natural gas, Panchayati Raj • Sunil Dutt - Youth Affairs and Sports • Shibu Soren - Coal, minies and minerals • A. Raja - Environment and Forest • Dayanidhi Maran - Communication and IT • Meira Kumar - Social Justice and Empowerment • K Chandra Shekar Rao - Shipping. • 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 & 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 • Taslimuddin - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises • 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 Independent charge • Santosh Mohan Deb - Heavy industries and Public Enterprises • Jagdish Tytler - Non-Resident Affairs • Oscar Fernandes - Statistics and programme implementation • Renuka Choudhury - Tourism • Subodh Kant Sahay - Food Processing • 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