The new cabinet
29 Oct 2012
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Following the cabinet reshuffle that seeks to give Prime minister Manmohan Singh's government a more youthful image (See:
Youth brigade to the fore in major ministerial reshuffle), the new ministers who were sworn in and administered the oath of secrecy are:| Cabinet ministers: | ||
 A K Antony Minister of defence |  Sharad Pawar Minister of agriculture, Minister of food processing industries |  P Chidambaram Minister of finance |
| Ghulam Nabi Azad Minister of health and family welfare | Sushil Kumar Shinde Minister of home affairs | M Veerappa Moily Minister of petroleum and natural gas |
| Dr. Farooq Abdullah Minister of new and renewable energy | S Jaipal Reddy Minister of science and technology, Minister of earth sciences | Kamal Nath Minister of urban development, Minister of parliamentary affairs |
| Ajit Singh Minister of civil aviation | Vayalar Ravi Minister of overseas Indian affairs | Mallikarjun Kharge Minister of labour and employment |
| Kapil Sibal Minister of communications and information technology | Anand Sharma Minister of commerce and industry, Minister of textiles | C P Joshi Minister of road transport and highways |
| Kumari Selja Minister of social justice and empowerment | G K Vasan Minister of shipping | Pawan K Bansal Minister of railways |
| M K Alagiri Minister of chemicals and fertilizers | Praful Patel Minister of heavy industries and public enterprises | Shriprakash Jaiswal Minister of coal |
| Salman Khursheed Minister of external affairs | V Kishore Chandra Deo Minister of tribal affairs, Minister of panchayati raj | Beni Prasad Verma Minister of steel |
| Jairam Ramesh Minister of rural development | K Rahman Khan Minister of minority affairs | Dinsha J Patel Minister of mines |
| Ajay Maken Minister of housing and urban poverty alleviation | M M Pallam Raju Minister of human resource development | Ashwani Kumar Minister of law and justice |
| Harish Rawat Minister of water resources | Chandresh Kumari Katoch Minister of culture | |
| Ministers of state with independent charge | ||
| Krishna Tirath Minister of state, ministry of women and child development | Prof K V Thomas Minister of State, ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution | Srikant Jena Minister of state, ministry of statistics and programme implementation and ministry of chemicals and fertilisers |
| Jayanthi Natrajan Minister of state, ministry of environment and forests | Paban Singh Ghatowar Minister of state, ministry of development of north eastern region and ministry of parliamentary affairs | Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia Minister of state, ministry of power |
| K H Muniappa Minister of state, ministry of micro small and medium enterprises | Bharatsinh Solanki Minister of state, ministry of drinking water and sanitation | Sachin Pilot Minister of state, ministry of corporate affairs |
| Jitendra Singh Minister of state, ministry of youth affairs and sports and ministry of defence | Manish Tewari Minister of state, ministry of information and broadcasting | Dr K Chiranjeevi Minister of state, ministry of tourism |
