: (Also in charge of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions, Planning, Atomic Energy, Space): Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
| Cabinet ministers: |
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| Deputy Prime Minister, Home, Coal and Mines: |
Lal Krishna Advani. |
| External Affairs: |
Yashwant Sinha. |
| Finance and Company Affairs: |
Jaswant Singh. |
| Defence: |
George Fernandes |
| Law and Justice: |
Jana Krishnamurthi |
| Health and Family Welfare: |
Shatrughan Sinha |
| Heavy Industry: |
Balasahib Vikhe Patil |
| Labour: |
Sahib Singh Verma |
| Commerce and Industry: |
Murasoli Maran |
| Petroleum and Natural Gas: |
Ram Naik |
| Railways: |
Nitish Kumar |
| Information and Broadcasting: |
Sushma Swaraj |
| Civil Aviation: |
Syed Shahnawaz Hussian |
| Disinvestment: |
Arun Shourie |
| Agriculture: |
Ajit Singh |
| Shipping: |
Ved Praksah Goel |
| Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation: |
Ananth Kumar |
| Environment and Forests: |
T.R. Balu |
| Minister of Tourism and Culture: |
Jagmohan Malhotra |
| Social Justice and Empowerment: |
Satya Narayan Jatiya |
| Human Resources Development, Science and Technology, Ocean Development: |
Murli Manohar Joshi |
| Parliamentary Affairs, Communications, Information Technology: |
Pramod Mahajan |
| Rural Development: |
Shanta Kumar |
| Tribal Affairs: |
Jual Oram |
| Water Resources: |
Arjun Sethi |
| Chemicals and Fertilizers: |
Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa |
| Power, Heavy Industries, Public Enterprises: |
Suresh Prabhu |
| Textiles: |
Kashiram Rana |
| Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution: |
Sharad Yadav |
| Youth Affairs and Sports: |
Uma Bharti |
| Agri and Rural Industries: |
Kariya Munda |
Ministers of State: (Independent Charge) |
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| Non-Conventional Energy Sources: |
M. Kannappan |
| Planning, Small Scale Industries, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions,Atomic Energy, Space: |
Vasundhara Raje |
| Steel: |
Braj Kishore Tripathi |
| Road Transport and Highways: |
B.C. Khanduri |
| Food Processing Industries: |
N.T. Shanmugam |
Ministers of State: |
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| External Affairs: |
Omar Abdullah |
| External Affairs: |
Digvijay Singh. |
| Home: |
I.D. Swami. |
| Home: |
Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao |
| Defence: |
Chaman Lal Gupta |
| Information and Broadcasting: |
Ramesh Bais |
| Finance: |
Gingee N. Ramachandran |
| Finance: |
Anant Geethe |
| Communication and IT: |
Sumitra Mahajan |
| Commerce and Industry: |
Raman Singh |
| Civil Aviation: |
Shripad Naik |
| Tourism and Culture: |
Vinod Khanna |
| Water Resources: |
Bijoya Chakravarty |
| Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation: |
Bandaru Dattatraya |
| Petroleum and Natural Gas, Parliamentary Affairs: |
Santosh Kumar Gangwar |
| Industries, Public Enterprises: |
Vallabh Bhai Ramjibhai Kathiria |
| Textile: |
Basangouda Patil |
| Communications and IT: |
Sanjay Paswan |
| Agro' and Rural Industries: |
Nikhil Chaudhary |
| Shipping: |
S. Thirunavukarasar |
| Railways: |
A. K. Murthy |
| Tribal Affairs: |
Faggan Singh Kulaste |
| Defence: |
Krishnamraju |
| Textile: |
V. Dhananjaya Kumar |
| Rural Development: |
Subhash Maharia |
| Power: |
Jayawanti Mehta |
| Consumer Affairs: |
Krishmam Raju |
| Social Justice and Empowerment: |
Satyabrata Mookherjee |
| Labour: |
Ashok Pradhan |
| Youth Affairs and Sports: |
P. Radhakrishnan |
| Health and Family Welfare: |
A. Raja |
| Urban Development and Poverty Alliviation, Parliamentary Affairs: |
O. Rajagopal |
| Science and Technology: |
Bachi Singh Rawat |
| Commerce and Industry: |
Rajiv Pratap Rudi |
| Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution: |
Ashok Pradhan |
| Human Resource Development: |
Rita Verma |
| Agriculture: |
Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav |
| Prime Minister's Office, Statistics and Programme Implementation, Animal Care: |
Vijay Goel |
| Rural Development: |
Annasaheb M.K. Patil |
| Law and Justice, Coal and Mines: |
Ravi Shankar Prasad |
| Railways: |
Bandaru Duttaraya |
| Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution: |
Sreenivasa Prasad |
| Defence Production and Supplies: |
Harin Pathak |
| Chemical and Fertiliser: |
Tapan Sikdar |
