Praful Patel, Sriprakash Jaiswal and Salman Khurshid to be elevated as Cabinet Ministers.
Ajay Maken and K V Thomas elevated as Ministers of State with Independent Charge. Beni Prasad Verma will be new induction as MoS Independent Charge.
Ashwani Kumar and K C Venugopal will be new Ministers of State. Kumar gets Planning and Parliamentary Affairs and Science and Technology and Earth Sciences while Venugopal gets Power.
M S Gill moved from Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry to Statistics and Programme Implementation. Ajay Maken gets MoS Independent of the Sports and Youth Affairs.
Sharad Pawar sheds Consumer Affairs and Food and Civil Supplies, retains Agriculture and gets Food Processing Industries.
Virbhadra Singh shifted from Steel to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises while Vilasrao Deshmukh shifted from Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises to Rural Development with additional charge of Panchayati Raj.
Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi gets additional charge of Civil Aviation in place of Praful Patel who gets Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.