TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ To bring you up to speed, 21 of the 58 ministries (except the PM) have just been announced. BJP President Amit Shah will be the new Home Minister in the Narendra Modi government while Rajnath Singh will be the new Defence Minister and Nirmala Sitharaman the Finance Minister.
Former foreign secretary S Jaishankar will be the new External Affairs Minister while Smriti Irani has been given charge of Women and Child Development Ministry in addition to Ministry of Textiles she already had in the earlier government.
Under the portfolios officially released today, Piyush Goyal gets to retain the Railways portfolio and has also been given Commerce and Industry which was held by Suresh Prabhu, who has been dropped. Prakash Javadekar, who was the Human Resource Development minister, gets to retain the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and will be the new Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
Shiv Sena’s Arvind Sawant gets ministry of heavy industries and public enterprise. Giriraj Singh gets animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries. PM Narendra Modi also the in-charge of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space and all important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.
