During his stint as MoS for chemicals & fertilizers, Mansukh Mandaviya oversaw revenue earnings from affordable generic drugs go up 5,500%, to Rs 665 crore from Rs 12 crore in 5 years.
Other key elevations include Anurag Thakur with I&B, Jyotiraditya Scindia with civil aviation and Kiren Rijiju with law. A surprise first-time inductee is Ashwini Vaishnaw who got 3 key ministries — railways, IT & communications.
Among the latest changes, Jyotiraditya Scindia gets civil aviation portfolio, Dharmendra Pradhan given education, and Mansukh Mandaviya gets health ministry.
There are now 14 ministers below 50 in Modi govt, as opposed to 6 in the pre-reshuffle council. A total of 36 ministers are aged below 60, in comparison to 16 earlier.
The massive reshuffle of Team Modi saw several heavyweight ministers being dropped. New faces emphasise a mix of caste, youth, women and representation from poll-bound states.
Total number of women in Council of Ministers now stands at 11, nearly double the figure inducted when Modi govt was sworn in for the second term in 2019.
Six Cabinet ministers, one Minister of State (Independent charge) and six other Ministers of State have tendered their resignation ahead of Modi govt reshuffle.
Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan chaired the GoM on Covid-19, but was missing at critical points, such as when cases in Delhi peaked, with Amit Shah stepping in to take action.
Ramesh Pokhriyal was inducted in the cabinet in 2019, a decision that surprised many at the time given that he had not held a Union cabinet position before.
The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.
Air force chief says HAL needs to churn out 24 aircraft per year. It is important for IAF to have indigenous weapons systems to deal with any security challenges, he says.
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
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