{"id":313033,"date":"2019-06-06T05:28:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T05:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313033"},"modified":"2019-06-06T05:28:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T05:28:11","slug":"pm-modi-led-central-government-reconstitutes-eight-cabinet-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-led-central-government-reconstitutes-eight-cabinet-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi-led Central government reconstitutes eight cabinet committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312795 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cabinet-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/cabinet-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/cabinet-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/cabinet-696x449.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/cabinet-651x420.jpg 651w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/cabinet.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government has reconstituted eight Cabinet Committees. These include &#8211; Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, Cabinet Committee on Accommodation, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, Cabinet Committee on Security, Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth and Cabinet Committee on Employment and Skill Development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">From the newly constituted cabinet committees, PM Modi is a part of six committees, barring Cabinet Committee on Accommodation and on Parliamentary Affairs, while Home Minister Amit Shah is part of all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Cabinet Committee on Security which takes all key decisions related to national security- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister &amp; Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and External Affairs Minister Subrahamanayam Jaishankar were included.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet includes PM Modi and Amit Shah, while Cabinet Committee on Accommodation has Amit Shah, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Another important committee- Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs &#8211; headed by PM Modi and includes Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Minister of External Affairs Dr. Subrahamanayam Jaishankar, Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers D.V.Sadananda Gowda, Minister of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Petroleum, Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The members in other cabinet committees as follows- \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs.<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Composition<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance; Minister of Corporate Affairs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ramvilas Paswan, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture &amp;Farmer Welfare, Minister of Rural Development: and Minister of Panchayati Raj.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications and Information Technology; and Minister of Law\u00a0and Justice<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thawar Chand Gehlot, Minister of Social Justice &amp; Empowerment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change; Minister of Information &amp; Broadcasting<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prahlad Joshi, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal and Mines.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs.<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Composition<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister.Modi<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nitin Jairam Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways;\u00a0Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance; Minister of Corporate Affairs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ramvilas Paswan, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture &amp;Farmer Welfare, Minister of Rural Development: and Minister of Panchayati Raj.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications and Information Technology; and Minister of Law and Justice<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Minister of Food Processing Industries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health &amp; Family Welfare; Minister of Science &amp; Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways, Minister of Commerce &amp;Industry<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Arvind Ganpat Sawant, Minister of Heavy Industries &amp; Public Enterprise<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prahlad Joshi, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal and Mines.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth.<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Composition<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Modi<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nitin Jairam Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport &amp; Highways, Minister of Micro. Small and Medium Enterprises<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance &amp; Corporate Affairs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways &amp; Minister of Commerce &amp; Industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Cabinet Committee on Employment &amp; Skill Development.<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Composition<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Modi<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance &amp; Corporate Affairs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture &amp;Farmer Welfare, Minister of Rural Development: and Minister of Panchayati Raj.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways &amp; Minister of Commerce &amp; Industry<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ramesh Pokhriyal \u2018Nishank\u2019, Minister of Human Resource Development<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum &amp;Natural Gas: and Minister of Steel<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mahendra Nath Pandey, Minister of Skill development &amp; Enterpreneurship<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Santosh Kumar Gangwar, MOS(I\/C)Labour &amp; Employment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State(I\/C) of the Ministry of Housing &amp;Urban Affairs; Minister of State(I\/C) of the Ministry of Civil Aviation; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government has reconstituted eight Cabinet Committees. These include &#8211; Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, Cabinet Committee on Accommodation, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, Cabinet Committee on Security, Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth and Cabinet Committee on Employment and Skill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313035,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313033\/revisions\/313035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}