Modi Cabinet: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has allocated the departments to all the ministers. In the first meeting of the new Modi cabinet on Monday, all the ministers were allocated their departments. While no changes has been made in the departments of the top ministers with the prominent ministers of the previous cabinet holding the same portfolios, many news faces have also been allocated different departments.

In Modi 3.0, Rajnath Singh will remain the Defence Minister, Amit Shah will remain the Home Minister, Nitin Gadkari hold the Road Transport Ministery, S Jaishankar have Foreign Ministry and Nirmala Sitharaman will have the Finance Ministry. Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan has been given the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Rural Development Ministry, while Manohar Lal Khattar has been allocated the Ministry of Energy and Urban Development.

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Apart from this, Prime Minister Modi has kept many ministries with himself including the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space. Besides this, all such ministries which have not been allocated to any minister will remain with PM Modi. All important policy issues will also remain under him.

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Meanwhile, BJP chief JP Nadda, who was part of PM Modi's cabinet in 2014, will be the new Health Minister. He also has a Chemicals and Fertilizers portfolio. Telugu Desam Party's Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu will be the new Civil Aviation Minister, a post previously held by BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia.

The distribution of portfolios was announced a day after the swearing-in of the NDA government. The alliance scored a hat-trick victory in Lok Sabha polls.