Dinsha, Bharat Solanki, Tushar, Praful get new portfolio

So after today’s reshuffling Praful Patel is no more a Civil Aviation minister of the country. He has been elevated with Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises portfolio in cabinet rank. Earlier he was just a minister of state.

Gujarat Kheda district MP Dinsha Patel has been allotted independent charge of Mining ministry as minister of state. This is bit better portfolio compare to previous one. Then Patel is only one minister in central government with the status of minister of state(independent charge). You should know that there’s no cabinet minister of mining over Dinsha. This means he is India’s mining minister. Now this is very lucrative department.

Shri Bharatsinh Solanki, Member of parliament from Gujarat’s Anand constituency has been shifted to Railway ministry in capacity of minister of state. Solanki was earlier minister of state for power. In UPA-1 also, the minister of state for Railway was from Gujarat. He was Chhota Udepur MP Naranbhai Rathwa who lost election in 2009.

South Gujarat’s MP Tusharbhai Chaudhary who was earlier minister of state for Tribal affairs, has now been allotted Roads, Transport and Highways department in same capacity. Chaudhary can serve Gujarat in many ways through this portfolio. Interestingly another minister of state Jitin Prasad has been allotted same departments as Chaudhary. So we have two ministers of state for Roads, Transport and Highway.

Following are the new Ministers and Portfolios announced today by the Government:

CABINET MINISTERS:

1. Shri Praful Patel : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

2. Shri Shriprakash Jaiswal : Coal

3. Shri Salman Khursheed : Water Resources and additional charge of Minority Affairs

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE):

1. Shri Ajay Maken : Youth Affairs and Sports

2. Shri Beni Prasad Verma : Steel

3. Professor K.V. Thomas : Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

MINISTERS OF STATE:

1. Shri Ashwani Kumar : Planning and Parliamentary Affairs and Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

2. Shri K.C. Venugopal : Power

The portfolios of the following Ministers may also be changed as indicated below:

CABINET MINISTERS:

1. Shri Sharad Pawar : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

2. Shri Virbhadra Singh : Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

3. Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh : Rural Development and additional charge of Panchayati Raj

4. Shri S. Jaipal Reddy : Petroleum and Natural Gas

5. Shri Kamal Nath : Urban Development

6. Shri Vayalar Ravi : Overseas Indian Affairs and additional charge of Civil Aviation

7. Shri Murli Deora : Corporate Affairs

8. Shri Kapil Sibal : Human Resource Development and additional charge of Communications and Information Technology

9. Shri B.K. Handique : Development of North-Eastern Region

10. Shri C.P. Joshi : Road Transport and Highways

11. Kumari Selja : Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and additional charge of Culture

12. Shri Subodh Kant Sahay : Tourism

13. Dr. M.S. Gill : Statistics and Programme Implementation

14. Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal : Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE):

1. Shri Dinsha Patel : Mines

MINISTERS OF STATE:

1. Shri E. Ahamed : External Affairs

2. Shri Harish Rawat : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

3. Shri V. Narayanasamy : Parliamentary Affairs and Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Prime Minister’s Office

4. Shri Gurudas Kamat : Home Affairs

5. Shri A. Sai Prathap : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

6. Shri Bharatsinh Solanki : Railways

7. Shri Jitin Prasada : Road Transport and Highways

8. Shri Mahadev S Khandela : Tribal Affairs

9. Shri R.P.N. Singh : Petroleum and Natural Gas and Corporate Affairs

10. Shri Tusharbhai Chaudhary : Road Transport and Highways

11. Shri Arun Yadav : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

12. Shri Pratik Prakashbapu Patil : Coal

13. Shri Vincent Pala : Water Resources and Minority Affairs