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The much-talked about reshuffle and expansion of the Union Council of Ministers was carried out on Wednesday. The list of ministers follows:
The portfolios of ministers to be appointed:
CABINET MINISTERS:
1. Praful Patel : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
2. Shriprakash Jaiswal : Coal
3. Salman Khursheed : Water Resources and additional charge of Minority Affairs
MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE):
1. Ajay Maken : Youth Affairs and Sports
2. Beni Prasad Verma : Steel
3. Professor K.V. Thomas : Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution
MINISTERS OF STATE:
1. Ashwani Kumar : Planning and Parliamentary Affairs and Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
2. K.C. Venugopal : Power
The portfolios of the following ministers changed:
CABINET MINISTERS:
1. Sharad Pawar : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
2. Virbhadra Singh : Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises
3. Vilasrao Deshmukh : Rural Development and additional charge of Panchayati Raj
4. S. Jaipal Reddy : Petroleum and Natural Gas
5. Kamal Nath : Urban Development
6. Vayalar Ravi : Overseas Indian Affairs and additional charge of Civil Aviation
7. Murli Deora : Corporate Affairs
8. Kapil Sibal : Human Resource Development and additional charge of Communications and Information Technology
9. B.K. Handique : Development of North-Eastern Region
10. C.P. Joshi : Road Transport and Highways
11. Kumari Selja : Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and additional charge of Culture
12. Subodh Kant Sahay : Tourism
13. Dr. M.S. Gill : Statistics and Programme Implementation
14. Pawan Kumar Bansal : Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE):
1. Dinsha Patel : Mines
MINISTERS OF STATE:
1. E. Ahamed : External Affairs
2. Harish Rawat : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
3. V. Narayanasamy : Parliamentary Affairs and Personnel,Public Grievances and Pensions and Prime Ministers Office
4. Gurudas Kamat : Home Affairs
5. A. Sai Prathap : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
6. Bharatsinh Solanki : Railways
7. Jitin Prasada : Road Transport and Highways
8. Mahadev S Khandela : Tribal Affairs
9. R.P.N. Singh : Petroleum and Natural Gas and Corporate Affairs
10. Tusharbhai Chaudhary : Road Transport and Highways
11. Arun Yadav : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
12. Pratik Prakashbapu Patil : Coal
13. Vincent Pala : Water Resources and Minority Affairs


