Chidambaram no 2, Shinde at no 5 on cabinet list

Cabinet ministers that went missing from the websites of the PM and the Cabinet Secretariat on July 14 still to make a comeback

GN Bureau | August 6, 2012

Though the order in which names of the Cabinet ministers are list on the government website do not signify any seniority, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar who had jumped to No 2 position after Pranab Mukherjee's exit is back as No 3 with finance minister P Chidambaram becoming No 2 in the new list at <http://india.gov.in/govt/cabinet.php>.

Pawar may be grumbling at Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, once his junior in the Maharashtra government, becoming the leader of House in the Lok Sabha, but he should have satisfaction that Shinde remains below him in the list at No 5.

Defence Minister A K Antony, whose sitting next to the PM in a Cabinet meeting three weeks ago led to Pawar's tantrums of resignation threat, remains below him at No 4. External Affairs Minister S M Krishna is placed at No 6. Excluding Pawar, all these top ministers operate from the Central Secretariat, the main seat of the government.

While one government website that showed the new order of the ministers has been updated, it is a mystery that names of the Cabinet ministers that went missing from the websites of the Prime Minister <pmindia.nic.in> and the Cabinet Secretariat <http://cabsec.nic.in/> on July 14 are still to make a comeback.

It is not that the two websites are not updated regularly as new information can be seen uploaded almost every day and yet there is no explanation from the PMO why nobody is putting the new list of the Cabinet ministers on the two main sites of the government.

No more Cabinet reshuffle is in the pipeline in an immediate future in view of the Parliament session from Wednesday and portfolio changes have been already effected and hence these cannot be alibis for not displaying the list on the websites of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Secretariat and that too when names of all the junior ministers are already on display all past three weeks.

Council of Ministers

Cabinet Ministers
Serial Number	Portfolio	Name of Minister
1.	Prime Minister(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Planning(External website that opens in a new window) Department of Atomic Energy(External website that opens in a new window) Department of Space(External website that opens in a new window)	Dr. Manmohan Singh
2.	Minister of Finance(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Palaniappan Chidambaram
3.	Minister of Agriculture(External website that opens in a new window) Minister of Food Processing Industries(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Sharad Chandra Govindrao Pawar
4.	Minister of Defence(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri A.K. Antony
5.	Minister of Home Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Sushil Kumar Sambhajirao Shinde
6.	Minister of External Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri S.M. Krishna
7.	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(External website that opens in a new window) Minister of Science and Technology(External website that opens in a new window) Minister of Earth Sciences(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Vilasrao Dagadojirao Deshmukh
8.	Minister of Health and Family Welfare(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad
9.	Minister of Power(External website that opens in a new window) Minister of Corporate Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Dr.(Shri) M. Veerappa Moily
10.	Minister of New and Renewable Energy(External website that opens in a new window)	Dr. Farooq Abdullah
11.	Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Jaipal Sudini Reddy
12.	Minister of Urban Development(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Kamal Nath
13.	Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Vayalar Ravi
14.	Minister of Civil Aviation(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Ajit Singh
15.	Minister of Information and Broadcasting(External website that opens in a new window)	Smt. Ambika Soni
16.	Minister of Labour and Employment(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Mallikarjun Kharge
17.	Minister of Human Resource Development(External website that opens in a new window) Minister of Communications and Information Technology(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Kapil Sibal
18.	Minister of Commerce(External website that opens in a new window) Industry and Minister of Textiles(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Anand Sharma
19.	Minister of Road Transport and Highways(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri C. P. Joshi
20.	Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation(External website that opens in a new window) Minister of Culture(External website that opens in a new window)	Kumari Selja
21.	Minister of Tourism(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Subodh Kant Sahai
22.	Minister of Shipping(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri G.K. Vasan
23.	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs(External website that opens in a new window) Minister of Water Resources(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal
24.	Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Mukul Balkrishna Wasnik
25.	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri M. K. Alagiri
26.	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Praful Manoharbhai Patel
27.	Minister of Coal(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Sriprakash Jaiswal
28.	Minister of Law and Justice(External website that opens in a new window) Minister of Minority Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Salman Khurshid
29.	Minister of Tribal Affairs(External website that opens in a new window) Minister of Panchayati Raj(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri V. Kishore Chandra Deo
30.	Minister of Steel(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Beni Prasad Verma
31.	Minister of Railways(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Mukul Roy
32.	Minister of Rural Development(External website that opens in a new window) Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Jairam Ramesh

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Ministers of State with Independent Charge
Serial Number	Portfolio	Name of Minister
1.	Ministry of Mines(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Dinsha J. Patel
2.	Ministry of Women and Child Development(External website that opens in a new window)	Smt. Krishna Tirath
3.	Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Ajay Maken
4.	Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution(External website that opens in a new window)	Prof. Kuruppassery Varkey Thomas
5.	Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Srikant Kumar Jena
6.	Ministry of Environment and Forests(External website that opens in a new window)	Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan
7.	Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Paban Singh Ghatowar

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Ministers of State
Serial Number	Portfolio	Name of Minister
1.	Ministry of External Affairs(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Human Resource Development(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri E. Ahamed
2.	Ministry of Home Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Ramachandran Mullappally
3.	Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions(External website that opens in a new window) Prime Minister Office(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri V. Narayanasamy
4.	Ministry of Commerce and Industry(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
5.	Ministry of Human Resource Development(External website that opens in a new window)	Smt. Daggubati Purandeswari
6.	Ministry of Railways(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri K.H. Muniyappa
7.	Ministry of Textiles(External website that opens in a new window)	Smt. Lakshmi Panabaka
8.	Ministry of Finance(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Namo Narain Meena
9.	Ministry of Defence(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri M. Mangapati Pallam Raju
10.	Ministry of Urban Development(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Saugata Roy
11.	Ministry of Finance(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri S.S. Palanimanickam
12.	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Jitin Prasada
13.	Ministry of External Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Smt. Preneet Kaur
14.	Ministry of Agriculture(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Food Processing Industries(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Harish Rawat
15.	Ministry of Railways(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki
16.	Ministry of Tribal Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Mahadeo Singh Khandela
17.	Ministry of Rural Development(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Sisir Kumar Adhikari
18.	Ministry of Tourism(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Sultan Ahmed
19.	Ministry of Information and Broadcasting(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Choudhury Mohan Jatua
20.	Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri D. Napoleon
21.	Ministry of Information and Broadcasting(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri S. Jagathrakshakan
22.	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri S. Gandhiselvan
23.	Ministry of Road Transport and Highways(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Tushar Amarsinh Chaudhary
24.	Ministry of Communications and Information Technology(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Sachin Pilot
25.	Ministry of Coal(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Pratik Prakashbapu Patil
26.	Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Corporate Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh
27.	Ministry of Water Resources(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Minority Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Vincent H Pala
28.	Ministry of Rural Development(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Pradeep Kumar Jain Aditya
29.	Ministry of Rural Development(External website that opens in a new window)	Ms. Agatha Sangma
30.	Ministry of Planning(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Science and Technology(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Earth Sciences(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Ashwani Kumar
31.	Ministry of Power(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri K. C. Venugopal
32.	Ministry of Health and Family Welfare(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Sudip Bandyopadhyay
33.	Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Food Processing Industries(External website that opens in a new window) Ministry of Food Processing Industries(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Charan Das Mahant
34.	Ministry of Home Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Jitendra Singh
35.	Ministry of Communications and Information Technology(External website that opens in a new window)	Shri Milind Murli Deora
36.	Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs(External website that opens in a new window)	Shukla Shri Rajeev

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