Shah to Monitor Ministry of Cooperation and PM Modi to Charge of Science & Tech

 

Home Minister Amit Shah will take additional charge of the newly created Ministry of Cooperation after the Cabinet reshuffle that took place today. Anurag Thakur has been made the Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports. Meanwhile, Kiren Rijiju has been made the Minister of Law and Justice.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accorded top priority to the Ministry of Science & Technology and will be actively monitoring the ministry. Meanwhile, Home Minister Amit Shah has got additional charge of Ministry of Cooperation that was announced by the Centre on Tuesday.

According top priority to the Ministry of Science & Technology, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to actively monitor the ministry himself. Meanwhile, Home Minister Amit Shah has got additional charge of the newly formed Ministry of Cooperation that was announced by the Centre on Tuesday.

The Modi government on Tuesday announced new ‘Ministry of Cooperation’ for strengthening the cooperative movement in the country.

This new ministry will provide a separate administrative, legal and policy framework for strengthening the cooperative movement in the country, the government said in a press note, adding that it will help deepen cooperatives as a "true people-based movement reaching up to the grassroots".

Dr Harsh Vardhan, who was the Union health minister and also the minister for science and technology, resigned on Wednesday from the Cabinet ahead reshuffle.

PM Modi on Wednesday brought in new faces, including Sarbananda Sonowal, Narayan Rane and Jyotiraditya Scindia, in the Cabinet and dropped as many as 12 ministers including Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar, as he gave his Cabinet a major overhaul.

Fifteen Cabinet ministers and 28 Ministers of State, comprising new faces and those elevated, were sworn in at a ceremony held in the Darbar Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

This is the first reshuffle in the Council of Ministers by PM Modi since he assumed charge for a second term in May 2019.