PM Modi reconstitues Cabinet committees, brings in new faces

Days after increasing the Union Cabinet, Prime Minister Narenda Modi on Tuesday has reconstituted the Cabinet committees, trimmed down the highly effective Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), and introduced in new faces into the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA).
But surprisingly, essential ministries usually are not represented within the CCEA whereas the CCPA doesn’t embrace ministers belonging to alliance companions, Dalit and minority communities.
Union Ministers Smriti Irani, Giriraj Singh, Mansukh Mandaviya, Bhupender Yadav and Sarbananda Sonowal are the brand new additions within the essential CCPA headed by Prime Minister Modi. Mandaviya was elevated to cabinet rank and has been given cost of Health and Family Welfare; and Chemicals and Fertilizers within the reshuffle that happened final week.
While the earlier CCEA had 11 members together with Harsimrat Kaur of the SAD, the brand new panel has solely eight members. Rajnath Singh (Defence), Amit Shah (Home), Nitin Gadkari ( Road Transport and Highways), Nirmala Sitharaman (Finance and Corporate Affairs) Narendra Singh Tomar (Agriculture and Farmers Welfare), S Jaishankar (External Affairs), Piyush Goyal (Commerce and Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Textiles) and Dharmendra Pradhan (Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship) are the brand new members.

Interestingly, at a time when the federal government declared that its insurance policies are geared toward enhancing the agricultural financial system, the Ministry of Rural Development will not be part of the CCEA, essentially the most essential cabinet committee that takes selections linked to the financial system. The Railways, the ministry with the largest capital outlay, and the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change are additionally not included within the committee.
In the CCPA, other than Irani, Giriraj Singh, Yadav and Sonowal, Modi included Rajnath Singh, Shah, Gadkari, Sitharaman, Tomar, Goyal, Pralhad Joshi (Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines). Although the variety of members within the CCPA stays the identical, the newly constituted one doesn’t have any representatives from the alliance companions. The earlier one had Sukhbir Singh Badal, Ram Vilas Paswan (additionally represented Dalit group) and Arvind Sawant. Both Badal’s Shiromani Akali Dal and Sawant’s Shiv Sena had give up the NDA final 12 months.
While Rajnath, Shah and Sitharaman are members of each committee, Goyal is on essentially the most variety of panels — Cabinet Committee on Accommodation, CCEA, CCPA, Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth and Cabinet Committee on Employment and Skill Development.
The composition of the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet, which takes calls on all necessary appointments within the authorities from the rank of Joint Secretary and above, and the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) – the best determination making physique on safety affairs – stay the identical. Both Modi and Shah are members of the primary and CCS continues to have Modi, Rajnath Singh, Shah, Sitharaman and Jaishankar.
Union Ministers Virendra Kumar, Kiren Rijiju and Anurag Singh Thakur have been included within the rejigged Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, in accordance with a notification issued by the Cabinet Secretariat final evening. Ministers of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal and V. Muraleedharan are particular invitees.

The new members of the Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth headed by the Prime Minister are Narayan Rane (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises), Jyotiraditya M. Scindia (Civil Aviation) and Ashwini Vaishnaw (Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology).

The Cabinet Committee on Accommodation has Shah, Gadkari, Sitharaman, Goyal and Hardeep Puri (Petroleum and Natural Gas, Housing and Urban Affairs) as members and Minister of State with Independent Charge Jitendra Singh (Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, PMO) as particular invitee.
The Cabinet Committee on Employment and Skill Development, headed by PM Modi has new members in Union Ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and Bhupender Yadav. The particular invitees for this committee are Gadkari, Ramchandra Prasad Singh (Steel), G. Kishan Reddy (Culture, Tourism; and Development of North Eastern Region)