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Meet Dr Singh's new team of ministers

Let's take a look at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's new team:

Cabinet ministers:

V Kishore Chandra Deo: Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj

Beni Prasad Verma: Steel

Dinesh Trivedi: Railways

Jairam Ramesh: Rural Development

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Srikant Jena: Statistics and Programme Implementation and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers

Jayanthi Natarajan: Environment and Forests

Paban Singh Ghatowar: Development of North Eastern Region

Gurudas Kamat: Drinking Water and Sanitation.

Ministers of State

Sudip Bandopadhyaya: Health and Family Welfare

Charan Das Mahant: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

Jitendra Singh: Home Affairs

Milind Deora: Communications and Information Technology

Rajiv Shukla: Parliamentary Affairs

Ministers with new portfolios

Vilasrao Deshmukh: Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

M Veerappa Moily: Corporate Affairs

Anand Sharma: Commerce and Industry; and additional charge of Textiles

P K Bansal: Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Water Resources

Salman Khursheed: Law and Justice and additional charge of Minority Affairs

Ministers of State

E Ahamed: External Affairs and Human Resource Development

V Narayanasamy: Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; and Prime Ministers Office

Harish Rawat: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries; and Parliamentary Affairs

Mukul Roy: Shipping

Ashwani Kumar: Planning; Science and Technology and Earth Sciences