United Progressive Alliance (UPA), under the Chairmanship of the President of the Indian National Congress, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi was re-elected to power in May 2009. Dr.Manmohan Singh formed his ‘Cabinet of Ministers’ which took oath on 22nd/28th May 2009. After 20 months, Dr.Manmohan Singh has made a reshuffle in his cabinet on 19th January 2011. As mentioned by the Prime Minister, it is only a 'minor reshuffle'. Obviously, Dr.Singh is having plans for a 'major reshuffle' after the Budget-Session of the Parliament.

The highlights of the present minor reshuffle in brief are that:-

• Three new persons have been introduced into the cabinet of Ministers.
• And five existing ministers have been elevated.
• And there is some shufflings made in the previous ministers/portfolios.
• None of the ministers in the previous cabinet has been dropped.
• The Top 4 Ministers/Portfolios( Finance, Home, External Affairs and Defence) are unchanged

The following is the list of Ministers of the Cabinet of the Union Government of India under Dr.Manmohan Singh:-

Cabinet Ministers:-
Serial No/Name of the Minister/Portfolio

1/Dr.Manmohan Singh/Prime Minister and also In-Charge of the Ministries/Departments viz:

• Ministry of Personnel,
• Public Grievances & Pensions,
• Ministry of Planning,
• Ministry of Culture,
• Department of Atomic Energy and
• Department of Space.

2/Shri Pranab Mukherjee/Finance
3/Shri.Sharad Pawar/Agriculture and Food Processing Industries
4/Shri.A.K.Antony/Defence
5/Shri P.Chidambaram/Home Affairs
6/Km.Mamata Banerjee/Railways
7/Shri S.M.Krishna/External Affairs
8/Shri Virbhadra Singh/Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
9/Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh/Rural Development and additional charge of Panchayati Raj
10/Shri.Ghulam Nabi Azad/Health and Family Welfare
11/Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde/Power
12/Shri M.Veerappa Moily/Law and Justice
13/Dr. Farooq Abdullah/New and Renewable Energy
14/Shri S.Jaipal Reddy/ Petroleum and Natural Gas
15/Shri Kamalnath/Urban Development
16/Shri Vayalar Ravi/Overseas Indian Affairs and additional charge of Civil Aviation
17/Shri Dayanidhi Maran/ Textiles
18/ Shri Murli Deora/Corporate Affairs
19/Smt. Ambika Soni/Information and Broadcasting
20/Shri Mallikarjun Kharge/Labour and Employment
21/Shri Kapil Sibal/Human Resource Development and additional charge of Communications and Information Technology
22/Shri B.K.Handique/ Development of North-Eastern Region
23/ Shri Anand Sharma/Commerce and Industry
24/Shri C.P.Joshi/Road Transport and Highways
25/ Kum. Selja/Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and additional charge of Culture
26/Shri Subodh Kant Sahay/ Tourism
27/ Dr. M.S. Gill/Statistics and Programme Implementation
28/ Shri G.K. Vasan/Shipping
29/ Shri Pawan K. Bansal/Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences
30/ Shri Mukul Wasnik/Social Justice and Empowerment
31/ Shri Kantilal Bhuria/Tribal Affairs
32/ Shri M.K. Alagiri/Chemicals and Fertilizers33/ Shri Sriprakash Jaiswal (Elevated) /Coal 34/ Shri Salman Khursheed(Elevated)/Water Resources and additional charge of Minority Affairs 35/ Shri Praful (Elevated) /Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Ministers of State with Independent Charge:-
Serial No./Portfolio/Name of the Minister1/Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution /Professor K.V. Thomas(Elevated)
2/Women and Child Development/Smt. Krishna Tirath
3/Environment and Forests/Shri Jairam Ramesh4/Youth Affairs and Sports/Shri Ajay Maken(Elevated)5/Steel/Shri Beni Prasad Verma(New)
6/Mines/Shri Dinsha Patel

Ministers of State:-
Serial No./Portfolio/Name of the Minister
1/Chemicals and Fertilizers/Shri Srikant Jena
2/External Affairs/Shri E. Ahamed
3/Home Affairs/Shri Mullappally Ramachandran
4/Parliamentary Affairs/ Ministry of Personnel/Public Grievances and Pensions and Prime Minister's Office/Shri V. Narayanasamy
5/Commerce and Industry/Shri Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
6/Human Resource Development/Smt. D. Purandeswari
7/Railways/ Shri K.H. Muniappa
8/Textiles/Smt. Panabaka Lakshmi
9/Finance/Shri Namo Narain Meena
10/Defence/Shri M.M. Pallam Raju
11/Urban Development/Shri Saugata Ray
12/Finance/Shri S.S. Palanimanickam
13/Road Transport and Highways/Shri Jitin Prasada
14/Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises/Shri A. Sai Prathap
15/External Affairs/Smt. Preneet Kaur
16/Home Affairs/ Shri Gurudas Kamat
17/Agriculture and Ministry of Food Processing Industries/Shri Harish Rawat
18/Railways/Shri Bharatsinh Solanki
19/Tribal Affairs/Shri Mahadev S. Khandela
20/Health and Family Welfare/Shri Dinesh Trivedi
21/Rural Development/Shri Sisir Adhikari
22/Tourism/Shri Sultan Ahmed
23/Shipping/Shri Mukul Roy
24/Information and Broadcasting/Shri Choudhury Mohan Jatua
25/Social Justice and Empowerment/Shri D. Napoleon
26/Information and Broadcasting/Dr. S. Jagathrakshakan
27/Health and Family Welfare/Shri S. Gandhiselvan
28/Road Transport and Highways/Shri Tusharbhai Chaudhary
29/Communications and Information Technology/Shri Sachin Pilot
30/Agriculture and Ministry of Food Processing Industries/ Shri Arun Yadav
31/Coal/Shri Pratik Prakashbapu Patil
32/Petroleum and Natural Gas/Corporate Affairs/Shri R.P.N. Singh
33/Water Resources/Minority Affairs/Shri Vincent Pala
34/Rural Development/Shri Pradeep Jain
35/Rural Development/ Ms. Agatha Sangma36/Planning/Parliamentary Affairs/Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences/Shri Ashwani Kumar(New)37/Power/Shri K.C. Venugopal(New)