Days after increasing the cupboard, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reconstituted cupboard committees, decreased the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) and added 5 new members as a part of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA). has introduced.
Important ministries together with rural improvement, railways and petroleum and pure gasoline, which had been earlier represented within the CCEA, have been omitted this time.
While Union ministers Smriti Irani, Bhupendra Yadav, Sarbananda Sonowal, Giriraj Singh and Mansukh Mandaviya have been introduced in as new members of the CCPA, there isn’t any consultant from the coalition companions. In the previous, the CCPA consisted of Ram Vilas Paswan (LJP), Harsimrat Kaur Badal (SAD) and Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena). Both SAD and Shiv Sena had give up the NDA final 12 months.
Other ministers who turned a part of the CCPA headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi are: Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Narendra Singh Tomar, Piyush Goyal and Pralhad Joshi.
The CCEA, which earlier had 12 members, now has 9: Modi, Rajnath Singh (Defence), Amit Shah (Home), Nitin Gadkari (Road Transport and Highways), Nirmala Sitharaman (Finance and Corporate Affairs), Narendra Singh Tomar (Agriculture) and Farmers Welfare), S Jaishankar (Foreign), Piyush Goyal (Commerce and Industry; Consumer Affairs; Food and Public Distribution; Textiles) and Dharmendra Pradhan (Education; Skill Development and Entrepreneurship).
The highest decision-making physique on safety issues, the Cabinet Committee on Security Affairs and the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, which decides all vital authorities appointments to the rank of Joint Secretary and above, stay unchanged.
Modi, Shah, Rajnath Singh, Sitharaman and Jaishankar represent the CCS. The two-member Appointments Committee of the cupboard contains the Prime Minister and the Home Minister.
Union ministers Virendra Kumar, Kiren Rijiju and Anurag Singh Thakur have been included within the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs headed by Rajnath Singh. According to a notification issued by the Cabinet Secretariat on Monday evening, Ministers of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal and V Muraleedharan are particular invitees.
The new members of the Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth, headed by the Prime Minister, are: Narayan Rane (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises), Jyotiraditya Scindia (Civil Aviation), and Ashwini Vaishnav (Communications; Electronics and Information Technology).
The Cabinet Committee on Housing has Shah, Gadkari, Sitharaman, Goyal and Hardeep Puri (Petroleum and Natural Gas; Housing and Urban Affairs) as members, and Minister of State (Independent Charge) Jitendra Singh (Science and Technology; Earth Sciences; PMO). as a particular invitee.
Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnav and Bhupendra Yadav are a part of the Cabinet Committee on Employment and Skill Development headed by Modi. The particular invitees for this committee are Gadkari, Ramchandra Prasad Singh (Steel), G Kishan Reddy (Culture, Tourism; Development of North Eastern Region).
Apart from Rajnath, Shah and Sitharaman, who’re a part of each committee, Goyal is a member of probably the most panels – CCEA, CCPA, Cabinet Committee on Housing, Cabinet Committee on Investment and Development, Cabinet Committee on Employment and Skill Development.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
