{"id":13383,"date":"2016-07-09T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T10:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=13383"},"modified":"2016-07-09T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T10:05:17","slug":"expansion-union-council-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/expansion-union-council-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Expansion of Union Council of Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: How many new ministers were included during the recent expansion of Union council of ministers?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 19<br \/>\n(b) 20<br \/>\n(c) 18<br \/>\n(d) 12<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 5 July 2016 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expanded Union council of ministers.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The newly constituted Union council of ministers of minster were expanded by 19 new Minsters of State.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Pranab Mukherjee at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prakash Javadekar, Minister of State with Independent Charge of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has been elevated as Cabinet Minister.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">List of newly appointed minsters includes the name of Ajay Tamta, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Fagan Singh Kulaste, S. S. Ahluwalia, Rajen Gohain, C.R.Chaudhary,Mansukh Lakshmanbhai Mandaviya, Vijay Goel, Ramdas Athawale, Anupriya Singh Patel, Nil Madhav Dave, Subhash Ramrao Bhamre, M J Akbar, Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi, Jaswantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor, Mahendra Nath Pandey,Parsottam Rupala and P.P. Chaudhary.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Subsequently, the five ministers were removed from their posts.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The five minister are Sanwar Lal Jat Minister of State for Water Resources River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Nihal Chand Minister of State for Panchayati Raj, Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava Minister of State for Tribal Affairs and Prof. (Dr.) Ram Shankar Katheria Minister of State for Human Resource Development.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">After this expansion, including the Prime Minister now there are total 78 ministers. Earlier the number was 66.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This includes 27 cabinet ministers, 12 ministers of state (independent charge) and 38 Ministers of State.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">After this expansion, portfolios of some of the ministers has been changed as follows:<br \/>\ni. Smriti Zubin Irani-Ministry of Textiles<br \/>\nii. Prakash Javadekar &#8211; HRD<br \/>\niii. Ravi Shankar Prasad- Ministry of Law &amp; Justice, Electronic and Information Technology.<br \/>\niv. Narendra Singh Tomar-Ministry of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation<br \/>\nv. Chaudhary Birendra Singh,-Ministry of Steel<br \/>\nvi. Venkaiah Naidu- Additional charge of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.<br \/>\nvii. Sadananda Gowda-Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation<br \/>\nviii. Manoj Sinha- Communications (Independent Charge)<br \/>\nix. Anil Madhav Dave &#8211; Environment, Forests and Climate Affairs (Independent).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/union-council-of-ministers-expanded-with-19-new-ministers-of-state\/?comment=disable\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/union-council-of-ministers-expanded-with-19-new-ministers-of-state\/?comment=disable<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/portfolios-of-the-union-council-of-ministers-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/portfolios-of-the-union-council-of-ministers-2\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146788\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146788<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How many new ministers were included during the recent expansion of Union council of ministers? (a) 19 (b) 20 (c) 18 (d) 12 Ans: (a) Related facts: On 5 July 2016 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expanded Union council of ministers. The newly constituted Union council of ministers of minster were expanded by 19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-13383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}