Following is the list of new ministers in Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh’s Council of 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
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:
Mr Dayanidhi Maran
Mr Murli Deora
Mr B.K. Handique
Dr M.S. Gill
Mr Kanti Lal Bhuria
Mr A. Sai Prathap
Mr Arun S. Yadav