29th January, 2003
President's Secretariat  


PRESS COMMUNIQUE


The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has been pleased to direct the following allocation of portfolios to the new Ministers and changes in the existing allocation of portfolios among Ministers in the Union Council of Ministers: -

CABINET MINISTERS

1.

Shri L.K. Advani

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

2.

Shri Arun Shourie

Minister of Communications and Information Technology and Minister of Disinvestment

3.

Shri Shatrughan Sinha

Minister of Shipping

4.

Smt. Sushma Swaraj

Minister of Health & Family Welfare and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs

5.

Shri Karia Munda

Minister of Coal

6.

Shri Arun Jaitley

Minister of Law & Justice and Minister of Commerce & Industry

7.

Dr. C.P. Thakur

Minister of Small Scale Industries and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region

MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)

1.

Shri Sangh Priya Gautam

Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries

2.

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

3.

Shri Ramesh Bais

Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Mines

MINISTERS OF STATE

1.

Shri Chhattrapal Singh

Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers

2.

Shri Dilip Singh Judev

Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment & Forests

3.

Shri Dilipkumar Mansukhlal Gandhi

Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping

4.

Smt. Bhavnaben Devrajbhai Chikalia

Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism & Culture

5.

Smt. Jas Kaur Meena

Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development

6.

Shri Tapan Sikdar

Minister of State in the Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Minister of State in the Department of Development of North Eastern Region

7.

Shri Subash Maharia

Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

8.

Shri Ch. Vidyasagar Rao

Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry

9.

Shri Satyabrata Mookerjee

Minister of State in the Department of Space, Minister of State in the Department of Atomic Energy, Minister of State in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and Minister of State in the Ministry of Planning

10.

Dr. Sanjay Paswan

Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment

11.

Shri Su. Thirunavukkarasar

Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

12.

Shri Vinod Khanna

Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs

13.

Shri Ashok Pradhan

Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development

14.

Shri U.V. Krishnam Raju

Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development

15.

Dr. Vallabhbhai Kathiria

Minister of State in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

16.

Shri Harin Pathak

Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs

17.

Shri O. Rajagopal

Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence

18.

Shri Vijay Goel

Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour

19.

Shri Santosh Gangwar

Minister of State in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas