The new council of ministers after Wednesday’s reshuffle

NEW DELHI - The following is the list of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s new council of ministers that has 34 cabinet rank ministers, six ministers of state for independent charge and 37 ministers of state.

The new council of 78 ministers, including the prime ministers, has seven women.

Cabinet ministers

01. Pranab Mukherjee - Finance

02. Sharad Pawar - Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

03. A.K. Antony - Defence

04. P. Chidambaram - Home Affairs

05. Mamata Banerjee - Railways

06. S.M. Krishna - External Affairs

07. Ghulam Nabi Azad - Health and Family Welfare

08. Sushil Kumar Shinde - Power

09. M. Veerappa Moily - Law and Justice

10. S. Jaipal Reddy - Petroleum and Natural Gas

11. Kamal Nath - Urban Development

12. Vayalar Ravi -Overseas Indian Affairs and Civil Aviation

13. Murli Deora - Corporate Affairs

14. Kapil Sibal - Human Resource Development and Communications and Information Technology

15. Ambika Soni - Information and Broadcasting

16. B.K. Handique - Development of North Eastern Region

17. Anand Sharma -Commerce and Industry

18. Virbhadra Singh - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

19. Vilasrao Deshmukh - Rural Development and Panchayati Raj

20. C.P. Joshi - Road Transport and Highways

21. Kumari Selja - Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Culture

22. Subodh Kant Sahay - Tourism

23. M.S. Gill - Statistics and Programme Implementation

24. G.K. Vasan - Shipping

25. Dayanidhi Maran - Textiles

26. Farooq Abdullah - New and Renewable Energy

27. Mallikarjun Kharge - Labour and Employment

28. Pawan K. Bansal - Parliamentary Affairs, Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

29. Mukul Wasnik - Social Justice and Empowerment

30. Kantilal Bhuria - Tribal Affairs

31. M.K. Alagiri - Chemicals and Fertilizers

32. Praful Patel - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

33. Sriprakash Jaiswal - Coal

34. Salman Khursheed - Water Resources, Minority Affairs

Ministers of State with Independent charge

01. Ajay Maken- Youth Affairs and Sports

02. Beni Prasad Verma - Steel

03. K.V. Thomas - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

04. Dinsha J. Patel - Mines

05. Krishna Tirath - Women and Child Development

06. Jairam Ramesh - Environment and Forests

Ministers of State

01. Srikant Jena - Chemicals and Fertilizers

02. E. Ahamed - External Affairs

03. Mullappally Ramachandran - Home Affairs

04. V. Narayanasamy - Parliamentary Affairs, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Prime Minister’s Office

05. Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia - Commerce and Industry

06. D. Purandeswari - Human Resource Development

07. K.H. Muniappa - Railways

08. Panabaka Lakshmi - Textiles

09. Namo Narain Meena - Finance

10. M.M. Pallam Raju - Defence

11. Saugata Ray - Urban Development

12. S.S. Palanimanickam - Finance

13. Jitin Prasada - Road Transport and Highways

14. A. Sai Prathap - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

15. Preneet Kaur - External Affairs

16. Gurudas Kamat - Home Affairs

17. Harish Rawat - Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

18. Bharatsinh Solanki - Railways

19. Mahadev S. Khandela - Tribal Affairs

20. Dinesh Trivedi - Health and Family Welfare

21. Sisir Adhikari - Rural Development

22. Sultan Ahmed - Tourism

23. Mukul Roy - Shipping

24. Choudhury Mohan Jatua -Information and Broadcasting

25. D. Napoleon - Social Justice and Empowerment

26. Jagathrakshakan - Information and Broadcasting

27. S. Gandhiselvan - Health and Family Welfare

28. Tusharbhai Chaudhary - Road Transport and Highways

29. Sachin Pilot - Communications and Information Technology

30. Arun Yadav - Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

31. Prateek Prakashbapu Patil - Coal

32. R.P.N. Singh - Petroleum and Natural Gas and Corporate Affairs

33. Vincent Pala - Water Resources and Minority Affairs

34. Pradeep Jain - Rural Development

35. Agatha Sangma - Rural Development

36. Ashwani Kumar - Planning, Parliamentary Affairs, Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

37. C. Venugopal - Power