Cabinet reshuffle recommendations by Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced his new council of ministers on tuesday(12/07/2011) and the below mentioned ministers are expected to take oath today(12/07/2011) evening.


CABINET MINISTERS:


1. Shri V. Kishore Chandra Deo
2. Shri Beni Prasad Verma
3. Shri Dinesh Trivedi
4. Shri Jairam Ramesh


MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE):


5. Shri Srikant Jena
6. Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan
7. Shri Paban Singh Ghatowar
8. Shri Gurudas Kamat


MINISTERS OF STATE:


9. Shri Sudip Bandopadhyaya
10. Shri Charan Das Mahant
11. Shri Jitendra Singh
12. Shri Milind Deora
13. Shri Rajiv Shukla


Prime Minister recommended the following portfolios to the new members in his letter to the President.



CABINET MINISTERS :


Shri V. Kishore Chandra Deo : Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj
Shri Beni Prasad Verma : Steel
Shri Dinesh Trivedi : Railways
Shri Jairam Ramesh : Rural Development

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE):

Shri Srikant Jena : Statistics and Programme Implementation and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers
Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan : Environment and Forests
Shri Paban Singh Ghatowar : Development of North Eastern Region
Shri Gurudas Kamat : Drinking Water and Sanitation

MINISTERS OF STATE:

Shri Sudip Bandopadhyaya : Health and Family Welfare
Shri Charan Das Mahant : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
Shri Jitendra Singh : Home Affairs
Shri Milind Deora : Communications and Information Technology
Shri Rajiv Shukla : Parliamentary Affairs


Changes in the existing Ministry Portfolio's as announced by our PM as follows:



CABINET MINISTERS:


Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh : Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
Shri M. Veerappa Moily : Corporate Affairs
Shri Anand Sharma : Commerce and Industry; and additional charge of Textiles
Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal : Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Water Resources
Shri Salman Khursheed : Law and Justice and additional charge of Minority Affairs

MINISTERS OF STATE:

Shri E. Ahamed : External Affairs and Human Resource Development
Shri V.Narayanasamy : Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; and Prime Minister's Office
Shri Harish Rawat : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries; and Parliamentary Affairs
Shri Mukul Roy : Shipping
Shri Ashwani Kumar : Planning; Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

The Resigned Ministers so far:

1. Shri Dayanidhi Maran
2. Shri Murli Deora
3. Shri B.K. Handique
4. Dr. M.S. Gill
5. Shri Kanti Lal Bhuria
6. Shri A. Sai Prathap
7. Shri Arun S. Yadav

These ministers resignation letter was forwarded to the President along with recommendations.