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    THE COUNCIL OF

    MINISTERS OF
    INDIA
    BYSANYAM SURANA
    YEAR 2015

    INTRODUCING THE COUNCIL

    INTRODUCTION

    TheUnion Council of Ministersexercisesexecutive


    authorityin theRepublic of India.

    It consists of seniorministers, called "Cabinet


    Ministers", and junior ministers, called "Ministers of
    State".

    It is led by thePrime Minister.

    A smaller executive body, called theUnion Cabinet is


    the supreme decision-making body in India.

    INTRODUCTION continued

    Only the Prime Minister and ministers of the rank of


    "Cabinet Minister" are members of the Cabinet.

    The most senior civil servant in India, called theCabinet


    Secretary, leads theCabinet Secretariat, and provides
    administrative assistance to the Council of Ministers.

    Ministers of State are tasked with assisting Cabinet


    Ministers in their work.

    REGULATIONS

    As a collective, the Council of Ministers is responsible to


    the lower house of theIndian Parliament, called
    theHouse of the People.

    According to theConstitution of India, the total number


    of ministers in the Council of Ministers must not exceed
    15% of the total number of members of the House of the
    People.

    REGULATIONS continued

    Ministers must be members of parliament.

    Any minister who is not a member of either the lower


    or upper houses of parliament for six consecutive
    months is automatically stripped of his or her
    ministerial post.

    RANKING

    There are three categories of ministers, in descending


    order ofrank:

    Cabinet Minister: member of cabinet; leads a ministry

    Minister of State (Independent Charges): junior minister


    not reporting to a cabinet minister

    Minister of State (MoS): junior minister reporting to a


    cabinet minister, usually tasked with a specific
    responsibility in that ministry

    FUNCTIONS
    Though

    there is an elected President at the top of the


    Government structure, the constitution in reality
    establishes a British cabinet type of Government in
    India.
    Article 74(1) requires thePresidentto have a Council
    of Ministers with the Prime Minister at the head to
    aid and advice him in the exercise of his power. To
    remove the impression that the advice given by the
    Council of Ministers may not be binding on the
    President, the 42nd amendment of the constitution
    has made the ministerial advice expressly binding on
    the President.

    FUNCTIONS continued

    In terms of Article 74(1) the President is bound to have a


    Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister at the head.
    The Prime Minister is appointed by the President and all
    other ministers are appointed by the President on the
    advice of the Prime Minister. India has a three-tier
    ministry consisting of cabinet ministers, ministers of
    state and the deputy ministers. The term cabinet is
    absent in the constitution. Usually senior ministers with
    independent charge of ministries constitute a body that
    the Prime Minister consults in arriving at policy
    decisions, constitute the cabinet. The cabinet thus is the
    policy making part of the ministry. It is an informal body
    and its members are chosen by the Prime Minister
    himself.

    FUNCTIONS continued

    Article 75 make the Council of Minister responsible to


    the House of People. This obliges the President to
    appoint the leader of the majority party as the Prime
    Minister and to appoint other ministers on his advice.
    Thus the Prime Minister is not the Presidents nominee
    but the nations choice. The nation votes a party to
    power and its leader becomes the Prime Minister. Indian
    general elections are really elections of the Prime
    Minister.

    FUNCTIONS continued

    The Prime Minister and the members of the council of


    ministers serve legally during the pleasure of the
    President. But the Presidents pleasure is not personal
    but political. So long the Prime Minister retains his
    support in the House of People; the President cannot
    withdraw pleasure from the Prime Minister and the
    Council of Ministers.

    FUNCTIONS continued

    The executive government in India is really the Prime


    Ministers government. The cabinet, as in England is the
    steering wheel of the government. As the nations chief
    executive body, the cabinet performs the following
    principal functions.

    FUNCTIONS continued

    Firstly, it is in charge of administering all the subjects


    entrusted to the national government by the union list.
    Principal among these functions are providing for security
    and defence of the country, maintaining and conducting
    the nations foreign affairs, maintaining the system of
    communication within the country, keeping the national
    economy in good health, preserving and improving interstate relations and a host of other things. Ministers are
    put in charge of administrative departments. The
    ministers are in reality political heads of administrative
    departments of governments. An elaborate bureaucracy
    conducts the day to day administration, under the
    political control of the ministers. Thus the Cabinet and
    the Prime Minister administers the country.

    FUNCTIONS continued

    In the sphere of law making the cabinet is equally


    supreme and the President has only a formal role. The
    President is no doubt an integral part of the Parliament.
    The President addresses the joint sessions of the
    Parliament after every general election and at the
    beginning of each session of the Parliament. But the
    President only reads out the address drafted for him by
    the Cabinet. The President signs the bills passed by the
    Parliament into law. But the President does exactly
    what the cabinet asks him to do.

    FUNCTIONS continued

    Again strictly constitutionally, the Parliament is the


    nations supreme law making body. But the Prime
    Minister and the cabinet have a firm control over the
    Parliamentary majority. Because of this majority
    support, the Prime Minister and the cabinet can make
    the Parliament pass whatever law, the Prime Minister
    wants the Parliament to pass. Conversely, the
    Parliament shall never pass a bill which the Prime
    Minister and the Cabinet oppose. Thus the law making
    powers of the Parliament is also the powers of the
    Cabinet.

    FUNCTIONS continued

    The Prime Minister and the Cabinet also have an


    absolute control over the nations finances. The annual
    budget is prepared at the instance of the cabinet. The
    proposals for taxes and expenditures are really made by
    the Cabinet, and only formally approved by the
    Parliament.

    FUNCTIONS continued

    Finally, Indian constitution is partially based on the


    theory of Parliamentary sovereignty. The sovereignty of
    the Parliament realistically means the sovereignty of
    the cabinet. Even the judiciary is not beyond cabinet
    control. Judges of the Supreme Court and the High
    Courts are appointed and transferred by the President
    on Cabinet advice. Similarly the Presidents rights to
    grant pardon or reprieve or remission of sentences are
    also the powers of the Cabinet. Thus the Indian
    Cabinet, like its British counterpart enjoys powers of
    dictatorial dimensions.

    PORTFOLIO OF THE
    COUNCIL OF
    MINISTERS

    PRIME MINISTER

    Shri Narendra Modi

    Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions


    Department of Atomic Energy
    Department of Space
    All important policy issuesand
    All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

    PRIME MINISTER: SHRI


    NARENDRA MODI

    Continued
    CABINET MINISTERS

    Shri Raj Nath Singh (Home Affairs)

    Smt. Sushma Swaraj (External Affairs


    Overseas Indian Affairs)

    Shri Arun Jaitley (Finance


    Corporate Affairs Information & Broadcasting)

    Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu (Urban Development


    Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
    Parliamentary Affairs)

    Continued

    Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari (Road Transport and Highways


    Shipping)

    Shri Manohar ParrikarDefence

    Shri Suresh Prabhu (Railways)

    Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda (Law & Justice)

    Continued

    Sushri Uma Bharati (Water Resources,River


    Development and Ganga Rejuvenation)

    Dr. Najma A. Heptulla (Minority Affairs)

    Shri Ramvilas Paswan (Consumer Affairs, Food and


    Public Distribution)

    Continued

    Shri Kalraj Mishra (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises)

    Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi (Women and Child


    Development)

    Continued

    Shri Ananth Kumar (Chemicals and Fertilizers)

    Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad (Communications and


    Information Technology)

    Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda (Health and Family Welfare)

    Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati (Civil Aviation)

    Shri Anant Geete (Heavy Industries and Public


    Enterprises)

    Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal (Food Processing Industries)

    Continued

    Shri Narendra Singh TomarMines


    Steel21Shri Chaudhary Birender SinghRural Development
    Panchayati Raj
    Drinking Water and Sanitation22Shri Jual OramTribal
    Affairs23Shri Radha Mohan SinghAgriculture24Shri
    Thaawar Chand GehlotSocial Justice and Empowerment

    Continued

    Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani (Human Resource Development)

    Dr. Harsh Vardhan (Science and Technology


    Earth Sciences)

    Continued
    MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

    General V. K. Singh (Statistics and Programme


    Implementation (Independent Charge)
    External Affairs
    Overseas Indian Affairs

    Shri Inderjit Singh RaoPlanning (Independent Charge)


    Defence

    Shri Santosh Kumar GangwarTextiles (Independent


    Charge)

    Shri Bandaru Dattatreya Labour and Employment


    (Independent Charge)

    Continued

    Shri Rajiv Pratap RudySkill Development &


    Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge)
    Parliamentary Affairs

    Shri Shripad Yesso NaikAYUSH (Independent Charge)


    Health & Family Welfare

    Shri Dharmendra PradhanPetroleum and Natural Gas


    (Independent Charge)

    Shri Sarbananda SonowalYouth Affairs and Sports


    (Independent Charge)

    Shri Prakash JavadekarEnvironment, Forest and Climate


    Change (Independent Charge)

    Continued

    Shri Piyush GoyalPower (Independent Charge)


    Coal (Independent Charge)
    New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)

    Dr. Jitendra SinghDevelopment of North Eastern Region


    (Independent Charge)
    Prime Ministers Office
    Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
    Department of Atomic Energy
    Department of Space

    Continued

    Smt. Nirmala SitharamanCommerce and Industry


    (Independent Charge)

    Dr. Mahesh SharmaCulture (Independent Charge)


    Tourism (Independent Charge)
    Civil Aviation

    Continued
    MINISTERS OF STATE

    Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (Minority Affairs


    Parliamentary Affairs)

    Shri Ram Kripal Yadav (Drinking Water and Sanitation)

    Shri Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary (Home Affairs)

    Shri Sanwar Lal Jat (Water Resources,River


    Development and Ganga Rejuvenation)

    Continued

    Shri Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya (Agriculture)

    Shri Giriraj Singh(Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises)

    Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir (Chemicals & Fertilizers)

    Shri G. M. Siddeshwara (Heavy Industries and Public


    Enterprises)

    Continued

    Shri Manoj Sinha (Railways)

    Shri Nihalchand (Panchayati Raj)

    Shri Upendra Kushwaha (Human


    ResourcesDevelopment)

    Shri Radhakrishnan

    (Road Transport & Highways


    Shipping)

    Continued

    Shri Kiren Rijiju (Home Affairs)

    Shri Krishan Pal (Social Justice & Empowerment)

    Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan (Agriculture)

    Shri Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava (Tribal Affairs)

    Continued

    Shri Vishnu Deo Sai (Mines


    Steel)

    Shri Sudarshan Bhagat (Rural Development)

    Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria (Human


    ResourceDevelopment)

    Shri Y. S. Chowdary (Science and Technology


    Earth Science)

    Continued

    Shri Jayant Sinha (Finance)

    Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Information &


    Broadcasting)

    Shri Babul Supria (Babul Supriyo) Bara (lUrban


    Development
    Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation)

    Continued

    Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (Food Processing Industries)

    Shri Vijay Sampla (Social Justice & Empowerment)

    THANK YOU!

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