Jaipal Reddy to be petroleum and natural gas minister

Cabinet rejig announced

GN Bureau | January 19, 2011



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

CABINET MINISTERS (changed):

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. 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 Minister’s 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

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