Union Ministries

Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare is the Government of India's apex department for crop agriculture and the farm economy.

Ministry of Civil Aviation

The Ministry of Civil Aviation is the Government of India's nodal ministry for civil aviation.

Ministry of Commerce and Industry

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry is the Government of India's apex department for external trade and industrial policy.

Ministry of Communications

The Ministry of Communications is the Government of India's apex department for telecommunications and postal services.

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution is the Union ministry that runs India's food-security machinery: it procures wheat and rice from farmers at minimum support prices, holds the central-pool buffer stock, and distributes subsidised grain to roughly 80 crore people through the public distribution system.

Ministry of Cooperation

The Ministry of Cooperation is the Union government department created on 6 July 2021 to give India's cooperative movement a dedicated administrative, legal and policy framework, a mandate previously carried inside the Ministry of Agriculture.

Ministry of Corporate Affairs

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs is the Government of India's regulator of the corporate sector: the department that administers the law under which companies are incorporated, governed, restructured and wound up.

Ministry of Culture, Government of India

The Ministry of Culture is the Union government department responsible for the preservation and promotion of India's tangible and intangible heritage.

Ministry of Defence

The Ministry of Defence is the Government of India's apex civilian authority over the armed forces.

Ministry of Education

The Ministry of Education is the Union government department that frames and implements national education policy and controls the central levers of India's school and higher-education systems.

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is the Government of India's apex department for information technology, electronics and internet governance.

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is the Union government's nodal agency for environmental and forestry policy and India's designated nodal ministry for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.

Ministry of External Affairs

The Ministry of External Affairs is the Government of India's department for the conduct of foreign relations — diplomacy, treaties, the diaspora, and representation abroad.

Ministry of Finance

The Ministry of Finance is the Government of India's apex economic department: the institution that writes the Union Budget and, through it, sets how the Union taxes, spends and borrows.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is the Government of India's apex department for public health.

Ministry of Home Affairs

The Ministry of Home Affairs is the Government of India's department for internal security and domestic order.

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is the Government of India's apex authority for urban policy: town planning, urban housing, water supply and sanitation, urban transport and the finances of urban local bodies.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is the Government of India's apex department for the press, radio and television broadcasting, film certification and government communication.

Ministry of Jal Shakti

The Ministry of Jal Shakti is the Union government's single seat of power over water in India, formed in May 2019 by merging the water-resources and drinking-water ministries.

Ministry of Labour and Employment

The Ministry of Labour and Employment is the Union government's department for the terms of work: it drafts and enforces labour law, sets minimum-wage policy, and runs India's contributory social-security machinery through the EPFO and ESIC.

Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is the Union government's apex body for the policy, promotion and regulation of India's micro, small and medium enterprises.

Ministry of Mines

The Ministry of Mines is the Union government department that regulates the survey, exploration and mining of India's non-fuel, non-atomic minerals and administers the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957.

Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is the Government of India's apex department for oil and gas.

Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways

The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways is the Union ministry that formulates and administers policy, law and regulation for India's maritime sector — the 12 major ports, merchant shipping, coastal trade, shipbuilding and recycling, and the national inland waterways.

Ministry of Power

The Ministry of Power is the Government of India's apex department for the electricity system — generation, the inter-state transmission grid, and distribution reform.

Ministry of Railways

The Ministry of Railways is the Government of India's nodal ministry for rail transport.

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) is the Union ministry that builds, funds and regulates India's national highway network and administers motor-vehicle and road-transport law nationwide.

Ministry of Rural Development

The Ministry of Rural Development is the Union government's principal instrument for anti-poverty spending and welfare delivery outside the cities, home to India's largest welfare programmes: the legal wage-employment guarantee MGNREGA, the rural housing scheme PMAY-Gramin, the women's self-help-group mission DAY-NRLM, and the rural roads programme PMGSY.

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is the Government of India's nodal ministry for the welfare and empowerment of Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes, denotified and nomadic communities, senior citizens, transgender persons, sanitation workers, victims of substance abuse, and persons with disabilities.

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is the Government of India's official statistical authority: the institution that measures the economy and much of the society, from the gross domestic product and the inflation index to employment, industrial output and household consumption.

Ministry of Women and Child Development

The Ministry of Women and Child Development is the Government of India's apex institution for the welfare and empowerment of women and children.