Portfolios of Manmohan Singh cabinet announced

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New Delhi, May 28

The UPA government Thursday evening announced the portfolios of the 73 ministers. Among the prominent cabinet ministers, Farooq Abdullah is the minister of New and Renewable Energy, while M. Veerappa Moily is the Law Minister, and Ambika Soni is the new Information and Broadcasting Minister.

Kapil Sibal is the Human Resource Development Minister, Anand Sharma is the Commerce and Industry Minister while Shashi Tharoor is Minister of State for External Affairs.

CABINET MINISTERS

1. Shri Virbhadra Singh Minister of Steel

2. Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

3. Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad Minister of Health and Family Welfare

4. Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde Minister of Power

5. Shri M. Veerappa Moily Minister of Law and Justice

6. Dr. Farooq Abdullah Minister of New and Renewable Energy

7. Shri S. Jaipal Reddy Minister of Urban Development

8. Shri Kamal Nath Minister of Road Transport and Highways

9. Shri Vayalar Ravi Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs

10. Smt. Meira Kumar Minister of Water Resources

11. Shri Dayanidhi Maran Minister of Textiles

12. Shri A. Raja Minister of Communications and Information

Technology

13. Shri Murli Deora Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas

14. Smt. Ambika Soni Minister of Information and Broadcasting

15. Shri Mallikarjun Kharge Minister of Labour and Employment

16. Shri Kapil Sibal Minister of Human Resource Development

17. Shri B.K. Handique Minister of Mines and Minister of Development of

North Eastern Region

18. Shri Anand Sharma Minister of Commerce and Industry

19. Shri C.P. Joshi Minister of Rural Development and Minister of

Panchayati Raj

20. Kum. Selja Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

and Minister of Tourism

21. Shri Subodh Kant Sahay Minister of Food Processing Industries

22. Dr. M.S. Gill Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports

23. Shri G.K. Vasan Minister of Shipping

24. Shri Pawan K. Bansal Minister of Parliamentary Affairs

25. Shri Mukul Wasnik Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment

26. Shri Kantilal Bhuria Minister of Tribal Affairs

27. Shri M.K. Alagiri Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

1. Shri Praful Patel Minister of State (Independent Charge) of

Ministry of Civil Aviation

2. Shri Prithviraj Chavan Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ministry

of Science and Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ministry of Earth

Sciences and Minister of State in the Prime Minister

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