New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government, two weeks into its second successive stint in office, has reconstituted six Cabinet committees and set up two more.
While the new committees oversee investment and employment, the six older ones deal with appointments, economic affairs, political affairs, security, accommodation and parliamentary affairs.
Here is a full list of the committees, which serve as decision-makers on important matters of governance, and their members:
1. Appointments committee of the Cabinet
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs
2. Cabinet committee on accommodation
Amit Shah
Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Minister of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance, Minister of Corporate Affairs
Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways, Minister of Commerce & Industry
3. Cabinet committee on economic affairs
Prime Minister
Rajnath Singh, Minister of Defence
Amit Shah
Nitin Gadkari
D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers
Nirmala Sitharaman
Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, Minister of Rural Development, and Minister of Panchayati Raj.
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Minister of Law and Justice.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Minister of Food Processing Industries
S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs
Piyush Goyal
Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Minister of Steel
4. Cabinet committee on parliamentary affairs
Amit Shah
Nirmala Sitharaman
Ram Vilas Paswan, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Narendra Singh Tomar
Ravi Shankar Prasad
Thawar Chand Gehlot, Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment
Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Minister of Information & Broadcasting
Pralhad Joshi, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Minister of Coal and Mines
5. Cabinet committee on political affairs
Prime Minister
Amit Shah
Nitin Gadkari
Nirmala Sitharaman
Ram Vilas Paswan
Narendra Singh Tomar
Ravi Shankar Prasad
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Minister of Science & Technology, and Minister of Earth Sciences
Piyush Goyal
Arvind Ganpat Sawant, Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprise
Pralhad Joshi
6. Cabinet committee on security
Prime Minister
Rajnath Singh
Amit Shah
Nirmala Sitharaman
S. Jaishankar
7. Cabinet committee on investment and growth
Prime Minister
Amit Shah
Nitin Gadkari
Nirmala Sitharaman
Piyush Goyal
8. Cabinet committee on employment & skill development
Prime Minister
Amit Shah
Nirmala Sitharaman
Narendra Singh Tomar
Piyush Goyal
Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Minister of Human Resource Development
Dharmendra Pradhan
Mahendra Nath Pandey, Minister of Skill development & Enterpreneurship
Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) Labour & Employment
Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing & Urban Affairs, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Civil Aviation, and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry
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