CABINET MINISTERS
V Kishore Chandra Deo: Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj
Beni Prasad Verma: Steel
Dinesh Trivedi: Railways
Jairam Ramesh: Rural DevelopmentMINISTERS 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 Ministers 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 and Arun S Yadav.