List of new ministers in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Council of Ministers

Following is the list of new ministers in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Council of Ministers:

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

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.

Portfolios of following ministers were changed:

Vilasrao Deshmukh : Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

M. Veerappa Moily : Corporate Affairs

Anand Sharma : Commerce and Industry; and additional charge of Textiles

P. K. 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

The Prime Minister forwarded the resignation letters of the following Ministers in the Union Council of Ministers:

Dayanidhi Maran

Murli Deora

B. K. Handique

Dr. M. S. Gill

Kanti Lal Bhuria

A Sai Prathap

Arun. S. Yadav.