New Delhi: In a major ministerial shake up two years since he took over, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inducted 19 new faces, including BJP leaders SS Ahluwalia, MJ Akbar and Vijay Goel, while elevating Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar.


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Here's how the new Modi Cabinet looks like:


PM Narendra Modi - Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space, All important policy issues, and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.


Rajnath Singh - Home Affairs


Sushma Swaraj - External Affairs


Arun Jaitley – Finance Corporate Affairs


M Venkaiah Naidu - Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information & Broadcasting


Nitin Jairam Gadkari - Road Transport and Highways Shipping


Manohar Parrikar - Defence


Suresh Prabhu - Railways


DV Sadananda Gowda - Statistics & Programme Implementation


Uma Bharati - Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation


Dr Najma A Heptulla - Minority Affairs


Ramvilas Paswan - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution


Kalraj Mishra - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises


Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - Women and Child Development


Ananthkumar - Chemicals and Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs


Ravi Shankar Prasad - Law & Justice and Electronics & Information Technology


Jagat Prakash Nadda - Health & Family Welfare


Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati - Civil Aviation


Anant Geete - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises


Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Food Processing Industries


Narendra Singh Tomar - Rural Development Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation


Chaudhary Birender Singh - Steel


Jual Oram - Tribal Affairs


Radha Mohan Singh - Agriculture & Farmers Welfare


Thaawar Chand Gehlot - Social Justice and Empowerment


Smriti Zubin Irani - Textiles


Harsh Vardhan - Science and Technology Earth Sciences


Prakash Javadekar - Human Resource Development


Ministers of State


Rao Inderjit Singh - Planning (Independent Charge) Urban Development Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation


Bandaru Dattatreya - Labour and Employment (Independent Charge)


Rajiv Pratap Rudy - Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)


Vijay Goel - Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation


Shripad Yesso Naik - AAYUSH (Independent Charge)


Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)


Piyush Goyal - Power (Independent Charge) Coal (Independent Charge) New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Mines (Independent Charge)


Dr Jitendra Singh - Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister’s Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space


Nirmala Sitharaman - Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)


Dr. Mahesh Sharma - Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)


Manoj Sinha - Communications (Independent Charge) Railways


Anil Madhav Dave - Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)


General VK Singh - External Affairs


Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Finance


Faggan Singh Kulaste - Health & Family Welfare


Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi - Minority Affairs Parliamentary Affairs


SS Ahluwalia - Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Parliamentary Affairs


Ramdas Athawale - Social Justice & Empowerment


Ram Kripal Yadav - Rural Development


Haribhai Parthbhai Chaudhary - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises


Giriraj Singh - Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises


Hansraj Gangaram Ahir - Home Affairs


GM Siddeshwara - Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises


Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi - Drinking Water & Sanitation


Rajen Gohain - Railways


Parshottam Rupala - Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Panchayati Raj


MJ Akbar - External Affairs


Upendra Kushwaha - Human Resources Development


Radhakrishnan P - Road Transport & Highways Shipping


Kiren Rijiju - Home Affairs


Krishan Pal - Social Justice & Empowerment


Jasvantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor - Tribal Affairs


Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan - Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation


Vishnu Deo Sai - Steel


Sudarshan Bhagat - Agriculture and Farmers Welfare


YS Chowdary - Science and Technology Earth Science


Jayant Sinha - Civil Aviation


Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore - Information & Broadcasting


Babul Supriyo - Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation


Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti - Food Processing Industries


Vijay Sampla - Social Justice & Empowerment


Arjun Ram Meghwal – Finance Corporate Affairs


Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey - Human Resource Development


Ajay Tamta - Textiles


Krishna Raj - Women & Child Development


Mansukh L Mandaviya - Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Chemicals & Fertilizers


Anupriya Patel - Health & Family Welfare


CR Chaudhary - Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution


PP Chaudhary - Law & Justice Electronics & Information Technology


Dr Subhash Ramrao Bhamre - Defence