Tamil Nadu Council of Ministers

Government of Tamil Nadu
Seat of Government	Fort St. George, Chennai
Executive
Governor	Banwarilal Purohit
Chief Minister	Edappadi K. Palanisamy
Deputy Chief Minister	O. Panneerselvam
Legislature
Assembly	Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly;
Speaker	P. Dhanapal
Deputy Speaker	V. Jayaraman
Members in Assembly	234
Judiciary
High Court	Madras High Court
Chief Justice	Indira Banerjee

The Tamil Nadu Council of Ministers is the executive wing of Government of Tamil Nadu and headed by State Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palanisamy who is the real head of government and leader of the state cabinet. The current state council of ministers was sworn-in 23 May 2016, after Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, 2016. The term of every executive wing is for 5 years. The council of ministers are assisted by department secretaries attached to each ministry who are from IAS Tamil Nadu cadre. The chief executive officer responsible for issuing orders on behalf of Government is Chief Secretary to the State Government.
The current Chief Secretary is Thirumathi Girija Vaithiyanathan IAS

Constitutional requirement

For the Council of Ministers to aid and advise Governor

According to Article 163 of the Indian Constitution,

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There shall be a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at the head to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his function, except in so far as he is by or under this Constitution required to exercise his functions or any of them in his discretion.
If any question arises whether any matter is or is not a matter as respects which the Governor is by or under this Constitution required to act in his discretion, the decision of the Governor in his discretion shall be final, and the validity of anything done by the Governor shall not be called in question on the ground that he ought or ought not to have acted in his discretion.
The question whether any, and if so what, advice was tendered by Ministers to the Governor shall not be inquired into in any court.

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This means that the Ministers serve under the pleasure of the Governor and he/she may remove them, on the advice of the Chief Minister, whenever they want.

For other provisions as to Ministers

According to Article 164 of the Indian Constitution,

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The Chief Minister shall be appointed by the Governor and the other Ministers shall be appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister, and the Minister shall hold office during the pleasure of the Governor:
Provided that in the States of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, there shall be a Minister in charge of tribal welfare who may in addition be in charge of the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and backward classes or any other work.
The Council of Minister shall be collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly of the State.
Before a Minister enters upon his office, the Governor shall administer to him the oaths of office and of secrecy according to the forms set out for the purpose in the Third Schedule.
A Minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of the Legislature of the State shall at the expiration of that period cease to be a Minister.
The salaries and allowances of Ministers shall be such as the Legislature of the State may from time to time by law determine and, until the Legislature of the State so determines, shall be a specified in the Second Schedule.

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Chief Minister

Like any Indian state, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is the real head of the government and responsible for state administration. He is the leader of the parliamentary party in the legislature and heads the state cabinet. The current Chief Minister is Edappadi K. Palanisamy.

Deputy Chief Minister

Like any state, Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is the deputy head of the government and senior minister of cabinet after the Chief Minister and mostly the position was vacant. The current Deputy Chief Minister is Panneerselvam.o

State Cabinet

As per Indian Constitution, all portfolios of state government is vested in Chief Minister, who distribute various portfolio to individual ministers whom he nominates to the State Governor. The state governor appoints individual ministers for various portfolios and departments as per advice of Chief Minister and together form the State Cabinet. As the original portfolios are vested with CM, who delegates to others upon his/her wish, actions of individual ministers are part of collective responsibility of the state cabinet and Chief Minister is responsible for actions of each minister. The state cabinet along with Chief Minister, prepares General policy and individual department policy, which will be guiding policy for day-to-day administration of each minister.

Fifteenth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 2017 – Council of Ministers

Edappadi K. Palaniswami ministry

Source: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly website^[1]

Sl. No	Name	Designation	Porfolios
1.	Edappadi K. Palaniswami	Chief Minister	Public, Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, Indian Forest Service, General Administration, District Revenue Officers, Police and Home, Public Works, Irrigation including Minor Irrigation, Programme Works, Highways and Minor Ports
2.	O. Panneerselvam	Deputy Chief Minister	Finance, Planning, Legislative Assembly, Elections and Passports, Housing, Rural Housing and Housing Development, Slum Clearance Board and Accommodation Control, Town Planning, Urban Development and Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority
3	Dindigul C. Sreenivasan	Minister for Forests	Forests
4.	K. A. Sengottaiyan	Minister for School Education	School Education
5	Sellur K. Raju	Minister for Co-operation	Co-operation, Statistics and Ex-Servicemen Welfare
6.	P. Thangamani	Minister for Electricity, Minister for Prohibition and Excise	Electricity, Non-Conventional Energy Development, Prohibition and Excise, Molasses and Prevention of Corruption Act
7.	S. P. Velumani	Minister for Municipal Administration, Minister for Rural Development and Implementation of Special Programme	Municipal Administration, Rural Development, Panchayats and Panchayat Unions, Poverty Alleviation Programmes, Rural Indebtedness, Urban and Rural Water Supply, Implementation of Special Programme
8.	D. Jayakumar	Minister for Fisheries Minister for Personnel and Administrative Reforms	Fisheries and Fisheries Development Corporation Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Personnel and Administrative Reforms (Training)
9.	C. Ve. Shanmugam	Minister for Law, Courts and Prisons, Minister for Mines and Minerals	Law, Courts and Prisons, Mines and Minerals
10.	K. P. Anbalagan	Minister for Higher Education	Higher Education including Technical Education, Electronics, Science and Technology
11.	V. Saroja	Minister for Social Welfare and Nutritious Noon Meal Programme	Social Welfare including Women's and Children's Welfare, Orphanages and Correctional Administration, Integrated Child Development and Beggar Homes, Welfare of the Differently Abled and Social Reforms and Nutritious Noon Meal Programme
12.	M. C. Sampath	Minister for Industries, Steel Control and Special Initiatives	Industries, Steel Control and Special Initiatives
13.	K. C. Karuppannan	Minister for Environment	Environment and Pollution Control
14.	R. Kamaraj	Minister for Food and Civil Supplies	Food, Civil Supplies, Consumer Protection and Price Control
15.	O. S. Manian	Minister for Handlooms and Textiles	Handlooms and Textiles
16.	Udumalai K. Radhakrishnan	Minister for Animal Husbandry	Animal Husbandry
17.	C. Vijaya Baskar	Minister for Health and Family Welfare	Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare
18.	R. Doraikkannu	Minister for Agriculture	Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Agro Service Cooperatives, Horticulture, Sugarcane Cess, Sugarcane Development and Waste Land Development
19.	Kadambur Raju	Minister for Information and Publicity	Information and Publicity Film Technology and Cinematograph Act, Stationery and Printing and Government Press
20.	R. B. Udhayakumar	Minister for Revenue	Revenue, District Revenue Establishment, Deputy Collectors, Weights and Measures, Debt Relief including Legislation on Money lending, Chits, Registration of Companies
21.	Vellamandi N. Natarajan	Minister for Tourism	Tourism, Tourism Development Corporation
22.	K. C. Veeramani	Minister for Commercial Taxes	Commercial Taxes, Registration and Stamp Act
23.	K. T. Rajenthra Bhalaji	Minister for Milk and Dairy Development	Milk and Dairy Development
24.	P. Benjamin	Minister for Rural Industries	Rural Industries including Cottage Industries, Small Industries
25.	M. R. Vijayabhaskar	Minister for Transport	Transport, Nationalised Transport and Motor Vehicles Act
26.	Nilofer Kafeel	Minister for Labour	Labour, Population, Employment and Training, Newsprint Control, Census and Urban and Rural Employment and Wakf Board
27.	Dr. M. Manikandan	Minister for Information Technology	Information Technology
28.	V. M. Rajalakshmi	Minister for Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare	Adi Dravidar Welfare, Hill Tribes and Bonded Labour
29.	K. Pandiarajan	Minister for Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture	Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture and Archaeology
30.	G. Baskaran	Minister for Khadi and Village Industries Board	Khadi and Village Industries Board, Bhoodhan and Gramadhan
31.	Sevvoor S. Ramachandran	Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments	Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments
32.	S. Valarmathi	Minister for Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare	Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Denotified Communities, Overseas Indians, Refugees and Evacuees and Minorities Welfare
33.	P. Balakrishna Reddy	Minister for Youth Welfare and Sports Development	Youth Welfare and Sports Development Department

Fourteenth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 2011 – Council of Ministers

Jayalalithaa ministry

Source: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly website^[1]

3 July 2011

E. Subaya^[2]

22 October 2011

C. Karuppasamy^[3]

4 November 2011

9 December 2011

26 January 2012

18 July 2012

K. A. Sengottaiyan^[8]

6 October 2013

C. V. Shanmugam^[9]

8 February 2013

Thirteenth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 2006 – Council of Ministers

Karunanidhi ministry

Source: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly website^[1]

Sl.No	Department	Minister
1	Chief Minister	M. Karunanidhi
2	Deputy Chief Minister	M. K. Stalin
3	Finance	K. Anbazhagan
4	Electricity	Arcot N. Veeraswami
5	Cooperation, Statistics and Ex-Servicemen	Ko. Si. Mani
6	Agriculture	Veerapandi S. Arumugam
7	Public works and Law	Durai Murugan
8	Higher Education	K. Ponmudy
9	Transport	K. N. Nehru
10	Health	M. R. K. Paneerselvam
11	Rural Industries and Animal Husbandry	Pongalur N. Palanisamy
12	Revenue and Housing	I. Periasami
13	Tourism and Registration	N. Suresh Rajan
14	Information	Parithi Ilamvazhuthi
15	Food	E. V. Velu
16	Slum clearance and Accommodation	Suba Thangavelan
17	Backward Classes	K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran
18	Labour	T. M. Anbarasan
19	Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments	K. R. Periyakaruppan
20	School Education	Thangam Thennarasu
21	Commercial Taxes	S. N. M Ubayadullah
22	Environment	T. P. M. Mohideen Khan
23	Forests	N. Selvaraj
24	Highways	Vellakoil Saminathan
25	Information Technology	Poongothai Aladi Aruna
26	Social Welfare	Geetha Jeevan
27	Adi-Dravidar welfare	Tamilarasi
28	Fisheries	K. P. P. Samy
29	Dairy Development	U. Mathivanan
30	Khadi	K. Ramachandran

Twelfth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 2001 – Council of Ministers

O. Panneerselvam & Jayalalithaa ministry

Source: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly website^[1]

Sl.No	Department	Minister
1	Chief Minister	J. Jayalalithaa O. Panneerselvam
2	Deputy Chief Minister	None
3	Finance and Law	C. Ponnaiyan
4	Public Accounts	S.R. Balasubramoniyan
5	Public Undertakings	R. Jeevanantham M.C. Sampath

Eleventh Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 1996 – Council of Ministers

13 May 1996

Minister Name	Portfolio	Departments and Works Allotted
M. Karunanidhi	Chief Minister	Public, Home, Tamil Nadu Police, Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, Indian Forest Service, General Administration, District Revenue Officers, General Administration, Finance, Industries, Prohibition and Excise, Commercial Taxes, Planning
K. Anbazhagan	Minister for Education, M (Edn.)	Higher Education, Technical Education, Electronics, Science and Technology, Youth Welfare and Sports, Legislative Assembly, Elections and Passports, Ex- Servicemen's Welfare
Arcot N. Veeraswami	Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Electricity (H & E)	Health, Medical Education, Family Welfare and Electricity
Nanjil K. Manoharan (1996–2000)	Minister for Revenue	Revenue, Board of Revenue, District Revenue Establishment and Deputy Collector
Ko. Si. Mani	Minister for Rural Development Development and Local Administration (RD & LA)	Municipal Administration, Community Development, Panchayats, Panchayat Unions and Rural Indebtedness and Urban and Rural Water Supply
Veerapandy S. Arumugam	Minister for Agriculture M (A)	Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Agro Service Cooperatives, Horticulture, Sugarcane Cess and Sugarcane Development
Durai Murugan	Minister for Public Works, M(PW)	Public Works, Irrigation including Minor Irrigation and Programme Work
Dr. Ponmudi (alias) Deivasigamani	Minister for Transport, M (T)	Transport, Nationalised Transport, Motor Vehicles Act, Ports & Highways and Madras Metropolitan Development Authority
M. Tamilkudimagan	Minister for Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture M (TOL & TC)	Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture
K. N. Nehru	Minister for Food and Public Distribution System System, M(Food & PDS)	Food, Price Control & Civil Supplies and Public Distribution System
K Sundaram	Minister for Milk M (Milk)	Milk and Dairy Development, Slum Clearance and Accommodation Control

References

1 2 3 4 "Home Page of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly". Assembly.tn.gov.in.
↑ "TN Cabinet reshuffle on July 03, 2017". Retrieved 2012-10-07.
↑ "Minister Karuppasamy passes away on October 22, 2011". Retrieved 2012-10-07.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "6 ministers leave TN Cabinet on 4 November, 2011". Retrieved 2012-10-07.
1 2 "Chief Minister Jayalalithaa reshuffles Cabinet again". NDTV.com. 2011-07-03. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
↑ "S. S. Krishnamoorthy sacked from TN Cabinet on January 26, 2012". Retrieved 2012-10-07.
↑ "S. P. Velumani removed from Revenue Portfolio on January 26, 2012". Retrieved 2012-10-07.
↑ "Sengottaiyan sacked on July 17, 2012". The Hindu. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
↑ "C. V. Shanmugam dropped from cabinet on October 6, 2012" (PDF). www.tnrajbhavan.gov.in. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
↑ "S. Gokula Indira dropped from cabinet on February 28, 2013". Retrieved 2012-10-07.
↑ "N. R. Sivapathi Indira dropped from cabinet on February 28, 2013". Retrieved 2012-10-07.
↑ "V. S. Vijay Indira dropped from cabinet on February 28, 2013". Retrieved 2012-10-07.

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[assembly.tn.gov.in-1] 1 2 3 4 "Home Page of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly". Assembly.tn.gov.in.

[2] "TN Cabinet reshuffle on July 03, 2017". Retrieved 2012-10-07.

[3] "Minister Karuppasamy passes away on October 22, 2011". Retrieved 2012-10-07.

[tnrajbhavan1-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 "6 ministers leave TN Cabinet on 4 November, 2011". Retrieved 2012-10-07.

[test-5] 1 2 "Chief Minister Jayalalithaa reshuffles Cabinet again". NDTV.com. 2011-07-03. Retrieved 2012-10-07.

[6] "S. S. Krishnamoorthy sacked from TN Cabinet on January 26, 2012". Retrieved 2012-10-07.

[7] "S. P. Velumani removed from Revenue Portfolio on January 26, 2012". Retrieved 2012-10-07.

[8] "Sengottaiyan sacked on July 17, 2012". The Hindu. Retrieved 2012-10-07.

[9] "C. V. Shanmugam dropped from cabinet on October 6, 2012" (PDF). www.tnrajbhavan.gov.in. Retrieved 2012-10-07.

[10] "S. Gokula Indira dropped from cabinet on February 28, 2013". Retrieved 2012-10-07.

[11] "N. R. Sivapathi Indira dropped from cabinet on February 28, 2013". Retrieved 2012-10-07.

[12] "V. S. Vijay Indira dropped from cabinet on February 28, 2013". Retrieved 2012-10-07.

Tamil Nadu Council of Ministers

Constitutional requirement

For the Council of Ministers to aid and advise Governor

For other provisions as to Ministers

Chief Minister

Deputy Chief Minister

State Cabinet

Fifteenth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 2017 – Council of Ministers

Edappadi K. Palaniswami ministry

Fourteenth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 2011 – Council of Ministers

Jayalalithaa ministry

3 July 2011

22 October 2011

4 November 2011

9 December 2011

26 January 2012

18 July 2012

6 October 2013

8 February 2013

Thirteenth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 2006 – Council of Ministers

Karunanidhi ministry

Twelfth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 2001 – Council of Ministers

O. Panneerselvam & Jayalalithaa ministry

Eleventh Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 1996 – Council of Ministers

13 May 1996

See also

References

External links