Odisha

Dharmendra Retains Petroleum Ministry

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OB Bureau

New Delhi: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has retained the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in the new Narendra Modi dispensation.

The cabinet portfolios were announced on Friday afternoon.

Balasore MP Pratap Sarangi, the other new face in Narendra Modi’s cabinet and the second BJP leader from Odisha to figure in his ministry, has been allotted the Minister of State for Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries

The allocation of the portfolios was announced a good 16 hours after the Modi government was sworn-in by President Ramnath Kovind at a grand ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhawan on Thursday evening.
While Amit Shah was given the Home portfolio, Nirmala Sitharaman was allocated the Defence Ministry. Rajnath Singh bagged the Defence Ministry.

The complete list of the portfolios allocated are as follows:

1. Raj Nath Singh Minister of Defence.
2. Amit Shah Minister of Home Affairs.
3. Nitin Jairam Gadkari Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.
4. D.V. Sadananda Gowda Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
5. Nirmala Sitharaman Minister of Finance; and Minister of Corporate Affairs.
6. Ramvilas Paswan Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
7. Narendra Singh Tomar Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj.

8. Ravi Shankar Prasad Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications; and
Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.
9. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Minister of Food Processing Industries.
10. Thaawar Chand Gehlot Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment.
11. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Minister of External Affairs.
12. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ Minister of Human Resource Development.
13. Arjun Munda Minister of Tribal Affairs.
14. Smriti Zubin Irani Minister of Women and Child Development; and Minister of Textiles.

15. Harsh Vardhan Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences.
16. Prakash Javadekar Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
17. Piyush Goyal Minister of Railways; and Minister of Commerce and Industry.
18. Dharmendra Pradhan Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; and Minister of Steel.
19. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minister of Minority Affairs.
20. Pralhad Joshi Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines.
21.Mahendra Nath Pandey Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

OB Bureau

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