Gadkari retains Highways and Road Transport portfolio

Known as task master, Nitin Gadkari again became Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways. Holding the same portfolio in the NDA 1 regime, Gadkari made a mark by improving the construction of highways from 14 km per day in 2014 to 23 km per day in 2019.

Gadkari earned a name by constructing Mumbai-Pune Expressway when he was a PWD Minister in Maharashtra, successfully used his skill to improve highway construction as well.

The RSS favourite, Gadkari also troubleshooter in the saffron party in Goa. By sorting out the political difference among leaders, Gadkari ensured BJP headed Government at the helm of affairs in 2017 in the southern state.

Impressed with his work as Highway Minister, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given him Water Resources and Ganga Cleaning portfolio also in the previous dispensation.

Again holding the same portfolio, Gadkari will have hands full of works including the passing of Motor Vehicle Bill, which is pending in Rajya Sabha due to opposition from political opponents. The bill, which proposes stricter penalty for road rules breakers, is aimed at reducing road accidents to half from more than 5 lakh per year.

Cabinet Ministers

Raj Nath Singh
Amit Shah
Nitin Jairam Gadkari
D. V. Sadananda Gowda
Nirmala Sitharaman
Ram Vilas Paswan
Narendra Singh Tomar
Ravi Shankar Prasad
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Thaawar Chand Gehlot
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
Arjun Munda
Smriti Zubin Irani
Harsh Vardhan
Prakash Javadekar
Piyush Goyal
Dharmendra Pradhan
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Pralhad Joshi
Mahendra Nath Pandey
Arvind Ganpat Sawant
Giriraj Singh
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Santosh Kumar Gangwar
Rao Inderjit Singh
Shripad Yesso Naik
Jitendra Singh
Kiren Rijiju
Prahalad Singh Patel
Raj Kumar Singh
Hardeep Singh Puri
Mansukh L Mandaviya

Ministers of State

Faggansingh Kulaste
Ashwini Kumar Choubey
Arjun Ram Meghwal
General (Retd.) V. K. Singh
Krishan Pal
Danve Raosaheb Dadarao
G Kishan Reddy
Parshottam Rupala
Ramdas Athawale
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
Babul Supriyo
Sanjeev Kumar Balyan
Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao
Anurag Singh Thakur
Angadi Suresh Channabasappa
Nityanand Rai
Rattan Lal Kataria
V Muraleedharan
Renuka Singh Saruta
Som Parkash
Rameswar Teli
Pratap Chandra Sarangi
Kailash Choudhary
Debasree Chaudhuri