ELEVATED AS NEW CABINET MINISTERS
Jairam Ramesh: Rural development
Dinesh Trivedi: Railways
Beni Prasad Verma: Steel
NEW FACES IN CABINET
V Kishore Chandra Deo: Tribal affairs and Panchayati Raj
Jayanti Natrajan: Environment and forests (MoS, Independent charge)
Rajiv Shukla: Parliamentary affairs (MoS)
Milind Deora: Communications and Information Technology (MoS)
Paban Singh Ghatowar: Minister for development of North Eastern region (MoS, Independent charge)
Sudip Bandyopadhyay: Health and family welfare (MoS)
Jitendra Singh: Home affairs (MoS)
Charan Das Mahant: Agriculture and food processing (MoS)
SHIFTED
Veerappa Moily: From law ministry to corporate affairs
Mukul Roy: From railways to shipping
Vilasrao Deshmukh: From rural development to ministry of science and technology and earth sciences
ADDITIONAL CHARGE
Anand Sharma: Textiles
Pawan Kumar Bansal: Water resources
Salman Khursheed: Minority affairs
DROPPED FROM CABINET
Murli Deora , MS Gill, BK Handique, Kanti Lal Bhuria, A Sai Prathap, Arun S Yadav, Dayanidhi Maran