Tamil Nadu Council of Ministers

According to Article 163 of the Indian Constitution,

# 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.

1. 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.
2. The question whether any, and if so what, advice was tendered by Ministers to the Governor shall not be inquired into in any court.

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.

According to Article 164 of the Indian Constitution,

# 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.

1. The Council of Minister shall be collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly of the State.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Source: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly website[1]

Sl. No	Name	Photos	Designation	Portfolios
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,Youth welfare and Sports Development	School Education,Youth welfare and Sports Development
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 Minister for Agriculture	Higher Education including Technical Education, Electronics, Science and Technology Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Agro Service Cooperatives, Horticulture, Sugarcane Cess, Sugarcane Development and Waste Land Development
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.	Kadambur Raju		Minister for Information and Publicity	Information and Publicity Film Technology and Cinematograph Act, Stationery and Printing and Government Press
19.	R. B. Udhayakumar		Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management	Revenue, District Revenue Establishment, Deputy Collectors, Weights and Measures, Debt Relief including Legislation on Money lending, Chits, Registration of Companies, Disaster Management
20.	Vellamandi N. Natarajan		Minister for Tourism	Tourism, Tourism Development Corporation
21.	K. C. Veeramani		Minister for Commercial Taxes	Commercial Taxes, Registration and Stamp Act
22.	K. T. Rajenthra Bhalaji		Minister for Milk and Dairy Development	Milk and Dairy Development
23.	P. Benjamin		Minister for Rural Industries	Rural Industries including Cottage Industries, Small Industries
24.	M. R. Vijayabhaskar		Minister for Transport	Transport, Nationalised Transport and Motor Vehicles Act
25.	Nilofer Kafeel		Minister for Labour	Labour, Population, Employment and Training, Newsprint Control, Census and Urban and Rural Employment and Wakf Board
26.	V. M. Rajalakshmi		Minister for Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare	Adi Dravidar Welfare, Hill Tribes and Bonded Labour
27.	K. Pandiarajan		Minister for Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture	Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture and Archaeology
28.	G. Baskaran		Minister for Khadi and Village Industries Board	Khadi and Village Industries Board, Bhoodhan and Gramadhan
29.	Sevvoor S. Ramachandran		Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments	Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments
30.	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

Source: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly website[1]

• E. Subaya[2]

• C. Karuppasamy[3]

• C. Shanmugavelu[4]
• R. B. Udhaya Kumar[4]
• S. P. Shanmuganathan[4]
• N. R. Sivapathi[4]
• G. Senthamizhan[4]
• Budhichandhiran[4]

• M. Paranjothi [5]
• Selvi Ramajayam[5]

• Agri S. S. Krishnamoorthy[6]
• S. P. Velumani[7]

• K. A. Sengottaiyan[8]

• C. V. Shanmugam[9]

• S. Gokula Indira[10]
• N. R. Sivapathi[11]
• V. S. Vijay[12]

Source: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly website[1]

Source: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly website[1]