New Delhi:
Here are the major changes in the Union Cabinet after the reshuffle:
- Murli Deora has been shifted from the Oil Ministry to Corporate Affairs
- Jaipal Reddy will replace him as Oil Minister
- Kamal Nath has lost the Surface Transport portfolio and gets Urban Development
- Kapil Sibal retains Telecom and HRD
- Ajay Maken and KV Thomas elevated as Ministers of State with Independent Charge
- Beni Prasad Verma will be new induction as MoS Independent Charge
- Ashwani Kumar and KC Venugopal will be new Ministers of State. Kumar gets Planning and Parliamentary Affairs and Science and Technology and Earth Sciences while Venugopal gets Power
- MS Gill moved from Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry to Statistics and Programme Implementation
- Ajay Maken gets MoS Independent of the Sports and Youth Affairs
- Sharad Pawar sheds Consumer Affairs and Food and Civil Supplies, retains Agriculture and gets Food Processing Industries
- Virbhadra Singh shifted from Steel to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises while Vilasrao Deshmukh shifted from Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises to Rural Development with additional charge of Panchayati Raj
- Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi gets additional charge of Civil Aviation in place of Praful Patel who gets Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
- BK Handique divested of Mines portfolio, retains Development of North Eastern Region
- CP Joshi shifted from Rural Development and Panchayati Raj to Road Transport and Highways
- Kumari Selja loses Tourism but gets additional charge of Culture, retains Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
- Subodh Kant Sahay shifted from Food Processing Industries to Tourism
- Pawan Kumar Bansal retains Parliamentary Affairs, loses Water Resources which has been given to Salman Khursheed
- Jaiswal elevated in the same ministry of Coal as Cabinet Minister
- Beni Prasad Verma will be MoS Independent Charge in Steel Ministry while KV Thomas retains Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the elevated position of MoS Independent Charge
- Dinsha Patel, MoS Railways, shifted to Mines and promoted as MoS Independent Charge
- Changes have also been made in the portfolios of various Ministers of State. E Ahamed shifted from Railways to External Affairs while Harish Rawat from Labour to Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
- V Narayansami made MoS in the PMO, Department of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension. He retains Parliamentary Affairs while losing Statistics and Programme Implementation
- Gurudas Kamat shifted from Department of Telecom to Home Affairs in the capacity of MoS. A Sai Pratap gets Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
- Bharatsinh Solanki gets Railways as MoS while Jitin Prasada gets Road Transport and Highways. Madhav S Khandela moved to Tribal Affairs
- R P N Singh will be MoS in Petroleum and Natural Gas and Corporate Affairs while Tusharbhai Chaudhary will be MoS Road Transport and Highways
Cabinet Ministers
Shri Sharad Pawar: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
Virbhadra Singh : Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Vilasrao Deshmukh : Rural Development with additional charge of Panchayati Raj
S Jaipal Reddy : Petroleum and Natural Gas
Kamal Nath : Urban Development
Vayalar Ravi : Overseas Indian Affairs with additional charge of Civil Aviation
Murli Deora : Corporate Affairs
Kapil Sibal : Human Resource Development with additional charge of Communications and Information Technology
B K Handique : Development of North-Eastern Region
C P Joshi : Road Transport and Highways
Kumari Selja : Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation with additional charge of Culture
Subodh Kant Sahay : Tourism
M S Gill : Statistics and Programme Implementation
Pawan Kumar Bansal: Parliamentary Affairs with additional charge of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
Ministers of State (Independent Charge) Dinsha Patel : Mines
Arun Yadav: MoS, Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
Pratik Prakashbabu Patil: MoS, Coal
Vincent Pala: MoS, Water Resources and Minority Affairs