Cabinet reshuffle: Jairam, Moily are the significant moves

12 Jul 2011

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New Delhi: In a startling move the Prime Minister's Office released the list of members to be sworn in or allotted new ministries even before informing the president's office. The composition of the new cabinet and reshuffled portfolios was put out on the website of the PMO.

According to a government statement, the oath of office and secrecy will be administered to new members at 5.00pm today.

The prime minister's office has recommended the portfolios of the newly appointed ministers may be as below:

Cabinet Ministers:

V Kishore Chandra Deo: Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj

Beni Prasad Verma: Steel

Dinesh Trivedi: Railways

Jairam Ramesh: Rural Development

Ministers of State (Independent Charge):

Srikant Jena: Statistics and programme implementation and minister of state in the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers

Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan: Environment and Forests

Paban Singh Ghatowar: Development of North Eastern Region

Gurudas Kamat: Drinking Water and Sanitation

Ministers of State:

Sudip Bandopadhyaya: Health and Family Welfare

Charan Das Mahant: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

Jitendra Singh: Home Affairs

Milind Deora: Communications and Information Technology

Rajiv Shukla: Parliamentary Affairs

The Prime Minister has further recommended that the portfolios of the following ministers may be changed as indicated below:

Cabinet Ministers:

Vilasrao Deshmukh: Science and technology and earth sciences

M. Veerappa Moily: Corporate Affairs

Anand Sharma: Commerce and industry; and additional charge of textiles

Pawan Kumar Bansal: Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Water Resources

Salman Khursheed: Law and justice and additional charge of minority affairs

Ministers of State:

E. Ahamed: External affairs and human resource development

V.Narayanasamy: Personnel, public grievances and pensions; and prime minister's office

Harish Rawat: Agriculture and food processing industries; and parliamentary affairs

Mukul Roy: Shipping

Ashwani Kumar: planning; science and technology and earth sciences

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