New Delhi: Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar would be the new HRD minister as Modi government has given an axe to controversy-prone Smriti Irani. Irani has been given a lighter textile ministry.
Venkaiah Naidu has been given charge of Information & Broadcasting ministry. Anant Kumar would become Parliamentary Affairs minister.
Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has also been given an additional charge of law ministry. Former law minister D. V. Sadananda Gowda has been given charge of Statistics & Programme Implementation.
Narendra Singh Tomar has been made Rural Development Minister. MoS Finance Jayant Sinha has been made MoS Civil Aviation.
Chaudhary Birendra Singh has been given Steel ministry.