Cabinet reshuffle: Jairam, Moily are the significant moves
12 Jul 2011
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