India Cabinate

President K. R. Narayanan


Vice President Krishna Kant

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Shri Vajpayee has assumed the office of the Prime Minister of India for the third time.
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee sworn-in as the Prime Minister of India on October 13, 1999. 
The oath was administered by  Shri K.R. Narayanan (The President) in the office and secrecy, at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. 

Cabinet ministers

1. L K Advani - Home
2. Ananth Kumar - Culture, Youth Affairs and Sports
3. T R Balu - Environment and Forests
4. Ms Mamata Banerjee - Railways
5. George Fernandes - Defense
6. Jagmohan - Urban Development
7. Dr Satyanarain Jaitya - Labor
8. Ram Jethamalani - Law, Justice and Company Affairs
9. Manohar Joshi - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises 
10. Murli Manohar Joshi - Human Resource Development, Ocean Development  and Science & Technology.
11. P R Kumaramangalam - Power
12. Pramod Mahajan - Parliamentary Affairs and Information Technology
13. Murasoli Maran - Commerce and Industry
14. Ram Naik - Petroleum and Natural Gas
15. Nitish Kumar - Agriculture
16. Rajnath Singh - Surface Transport
17. Joel Oram - Tribal Affairs
18. Ram Vilas Paswan - Communications
19. Naveen Patnaik - Mines and Minerals
20. Sunderlal Patwa - Rural Development
21. Suresh Prabhu - Chemicals and Fertilizers
22. Kashiram Rana - Textiles
23. Shanta Kumar - Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution
24. Jaswant Singh - External Affairs
25. Yashwant Sinha - Finance
26. Sharad Yadav - Civil Aviation
27. C.P. Thakur - Water resources
28. Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa - Works and Estates

    Minister of state (Independent)

29. Maneka Gandhi - Social Justice and Empowerment
30. Arun Jaitley - Information and Broadcasting
31. M. Kannappan - Non-Conventional Energy Sources
32. Dilip Ray - Steel
33. Ms Vasundhara Raje - Small-Scale Industries
34. N T Shanmugham - Health and Family Welfare
35. Ms Uma Bharati - Tourism

    Ministers of State

36. Ramesh Bais - Chemicals and Fertilizers
37. Bijoya Chakravarty - Water Resources
38. Shriram Chauhan - Consumer Affairs and Public distribution
39. Bandaru Dattatraya - Urban Development
40. Jaisingh Rao Patil - Human Resource Development
41. Santosh Gangwar - Petroleum and Natural Gas and additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs
42. Chaman Lal Gupta - Civil Aviation
43. Dr Vallabhnhai Kathiriya - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
44. Faggan Singh Kulaste - Tribal Affairs
45. V. Dhananjay Kumar - Finance
46. Ms Sumitra Mahajan - Human Resource Development
47. Subhash Maharia - Rural Development
48. Babulal Marandi - Environment and Forests
49. Ms Jayawanti Mehta - Power
50. Munni Lal - Labor and Employment
51. Omar Farooq Abdullah - Commerce and Industries
52. Ajit Kumar Panja - External Affairs
53. Hiran Pathak - Defense
54. Devendra Pradhan - Surface Transport
55. E Punnuswami - Petroleum
56. A Raja - Rural Development
57. O Rajgopal - Law, Justice & Company Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs 
58. Dr Raman - Commerce and Industries
59. N G Ramachandran - Textiles
60. Vidaya Sagar Rao - Home
61. SBPPK Satyanarayanan Rao - Agriculture
62. Bachi Singh Rawat - Science & Technology
63. Syed Shahnawaz Hussain - Food Processing
64. Tapan Sikdar - Communication
65. Digvijay Singh - Railways
66. T. H. Chaoba Singh - Culture Youth Affairs Sports
67. V. Sreenivasa Prasad - Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution
68. I. D. Swami - Home
69. Dr (Ms.) Rita Verma - Mines and Minerals
70. Balasaheb Vikhe Patil - Finance
71. Bangaru Laxman - Railways
72. Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav - Agriculture
73. Arun Shourie - Planning, Statistics, Program Implementation, department of administrative reforms and public grievances in the Ministry of Personnel and Public grievances and Pensions.

Ms Vasundhara Raje will also assist the Prime Minister in handling the Ministry of Personnel and Training, Department of Energy and Department of Space.