Sibal to head HRD ministry, Moily gets Law

Veerappa Moily will take charge of Law, Ambika Soni to become I&B minister, Anand Sharma gets Commerce & Industry.

Sibal to head HRD ministry, Moily gets Law
NEW DELHI: 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.


UNION MINISTERS
Ghulam Nabi Azad: Health & Family Welfare
Kapil Sibal: Human Resource Development
Veerappa Moily: Law & Justice

Ambika Soni: Information & Broadcasting
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Anand Sharma: Commerce & Industry
S Jaipal Reddy: Urban Development
Murli Deora: Oil & Petroleum minister.
Kumari Selja: Housing, Urban & Poverty Alleviation, Tourism
Sushil Kumar Shinde: Power
Vilasrao Deshmukh: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises.
Kamal Nath: Surface Transport & Highways
Virbhadra Singh: Steel
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A Raja: IT & Communication:
Dayanidhi Maran: Textiles
Meira Kumar: Water Resources
C P Joshi: Rural Development & Panchayati Raj
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M S Gill: Youth Affairs & Sports
M Azhagiri: Chemical & Fertilisers
Mallikarjun Kharge: Labour & Employment
Farooq Abdullah: New & Renewable Energy.
Subodh Kant Sahay: Food Processing Industries
G K Vasan: Shipping
Pawan Kumar Bansal: Parliamentary Affairs
Vyalar Ravi: Overseas Indian Affairs
B K Handique: Mines, Development of North-Eastern Region
Mukul Wasnik : Social Justice & Empowerment
Kantilal Bhuria : Tribal Affairs
Pranab Mukherjee: Finance
Sharad Pawar: Agriculture, Food & Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution
A K Antony: Defence
P. Chidambaram: Home Affairs
Mamata Banerjee: Railways
S M Krishna: External Affairs


MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)
Praful Patel: Civil Aviation
Prithviraj Chavan: Science & Technology; Earth Sciences and MoS in the Prime Minister's Office; Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Parliamentary Affairs.
Sriprakash Jaiswal: Coal; Statistics & Programme Implementation
Salman Khursheed: Corporate Affairs; Minority Affairs
Dinsha J Patel: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Krishna Tirath: Women and Child Development
Jairam Ramesh: Environment and Forests


MINISTERS OF STATE
Mahadev S. Khandela: Road Transport & Highways
Dinesh Trivedi: Health & Family Welfare
Sisir Adhikari: Rural Development
Sultan Ahmed: Tourism
Mukul Roy: Shipping
Mohan Jatua: Information and Broadcasting
D Napoleon Minister: Social Justice & Empowerment
Dr. S. Jagathrakshakan: Information & Broadcasting
S Gandhiselvan: Health & Family Welfare
Tusharbhai Chaudhary: Tribal Affairs
Sachin Pilot: Communications and IT
Arun Yadav: Youth Affairs & Sports
Pratik Patil: Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
R P N Singh: Road Transport & Highways
Shashi Tharoor: External Affairs
Vincent Pala: Water Resources
Pradeep Jain: Rural Development
Agatha Sangma: Rural Development
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