Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi after a series of delibrations to finalise the list of ministers and portfolios. PM management team to run the goverance of India with total strength of the Council of Ministers will go upto 79 including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
There will be nine women candidatesand nine former CM of Congress run states among them. There are as many as 40 new faces.
Cabinet Ministers to be included are Virbhadra Singh , Vilasrao Deshmukh , Dr.Farooq Abdullah, Dayanidhi Maran, A Raja, Mallikarjun Kharge, Kumari Selja, Subodh Kant Sahay, Dr M S Gill, G K Vasan, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mukul Wasnik and Kantilal Bhuria. The Ministers of State with Independent Charge are M K Azhagiri, Praful Patel, Prithviraj Chauhan, Sriprakash Jaiswal, Salman Khursheed, Dinsha Patel, Jairam Ramesh and Mrs. Krishna Tirath.
Ministers of State will include E Ahamed, V Narayanasamy, Srikant Jena, Mullappally Ramachandran, Smt D Purandeswari, Smt Panabaka Lakshmi, Ajay Maken, K H Muniyappa, Namo Narain Meena, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jitin Prasad, A Sai Prathap, Gurudas Kamat, M M Pallam Raju, Mahadev Khandela, Harish Rawat, Professor K V Thomas, Saugata Ray, Dinesh Trivedi.
Other Ministers of State include Sisir Adhikari, Sultan Ahmed, Mukul Roy, Mohan Jatua, S S Palanimanickam, D Napoleon, Dr.S Jagathrakshakan, S Gandhiselvan, Smt Preneet Kaur, Sachin Pilot, Shashi Tharoor, Bharat singh Solanki, Tusharbhai Chaudhary, Arun Yadav, Prateek Prakashbapu Patil, R P N Singh, Vincent Pala, Pradeep Jain and Ms. Agatha Sangma.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said he will present the full Budget for 2009-10 in the first week of July, assuring economic revival not at the cost of fiscal prudence.
In his first formal press conference after taking over as full-time Finance Minister, Mukherjee said the UPA had in its manifesto committed to presenting the Budget within 45 days of formation of the Government.
Keeping that deadline in mind, the Budget for 2009-10 will be presented in the first week of July, he said, adding the Government would endeavour for the Budget to be passed before 31st July.
Reviving growth momentum of the economy will be the top priority for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led Government but revival would not be at the cost of fiscal prudence, he said.
Mukherjee said the industry and business hit hard by cost of finance and its easy availability and he would meet bankers soon to get them committed to more benign plan of action to boost credit and its flow.
Mukherjee said the prime focus of the Budget will be "Aam Aadmi" (common man) but will also lay stress on infrastructure spending.
The government has eased liquidity situation considerably through series of measures taken by RBI, he said, adding that he will be meeting bankers soon to take stock of the situation.
"I expects that they (banks) will take advantage of the monetary policy ... I will have to see that the credit is being made available," he said.
On the GDP expansion, the Finance Minister said that 6.5-7 per cent growth rate is a respectable growth for the current fiscal.
Asked about the inflation target for 2009-10, he said that the rate of price rise at 0.61 per cent (for the week ended 9th May) is reasonably down and provides enough leverage.
Mukherjee said that the government is equally committed to fiscal consolidation over 2-3 years and it will also make anti-money laundering regime stronger.
There will be nine women candidatesand nine former CM of Congress run states among them. There are as many as 40 new faces.
Cabinet Ministers to be included are Virbhadra Singh , Vilasrao Deshmukh , Dr.Farooq Abdullah, Dayanidhi Maran, A Raja, Mallikarjun Kharge, Kumari Selja, Subodh Kant Sahay, Dr M S Gill, G K Vasan, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mukul Wasnik and Kantilal Bhuria. The Ministers of State with Independent Charge are M K Azhagiri, Praful Patel, Prithviraj Chauhan, Sriprakash Jaiswal, Salman Khursheed, Dinsha Patel, Jairam Ramesh and Mrs. Krishna Tirath.
Ministers of State will include E Ahamed, V Narayanasamy, Srikant Jena, Mullappally Ramachandran, Smt D Purandeswari, Smt Panabaka Lakshmi, Ajay Maken, K H Muniyappa, Namo Narain Meena, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jitin Prasad, A Sai Prathap, Gurudas Kamat, M M Pallam Raju, Mahadev Khandela, Harish Rawat, Professor K V Thomas, Saugata Ray, Dinesh Trivedi.
Other Ministers of State include Sisir Adhikari, Sultan Ahmed, Mukul Roy, Mohan Jatua, S S Palanimanickam, D Napoleon, Dr.S Jagathrakshakan, S Gandhiselvan, Smt Preneet Kaur, Sachin Pilot, Shashi Tharoor, Bharat singh Solanki, Tusharbhai Chaudhary, Arun Yadav, Prateek Prakashbapu Patil, R P N Singh, Vincent Pala, Pradeep Jain and Ms. Agatha Sangma.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said he will present the full Budget for 2009-10 in the first week of July, assuring economic revival not at the cost of fiscal prudence.
In his first formal press conference after taking over as full-time Finance Minister, Mukherjee said the UPA had in its manifesto committed to presenting the Budget within 45 days of formation of the Government.
Keeping that deadline in mind, the Budget for 2009-10 will be presented in the first week of July, he said, adding the Government would endeavour for the Budget to be passed before 31st July.
Reviving growth momentum of the economy will be the top priority for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led Government but revival would not be at the cost of fiscal prudence, he said.
Mukherjee said the industry and business hit hard by cost of finance and its easy availability and he would meet bankers soon to get them committed to more benign plan of action to boost credit and its flow.
Mukherjee said the prime focus of the Budget will be "Aam Aadmi" (common man) but will also lay stress on infrastructure spending.
The government has eased liquidity situation considerably through series of measures taken by RBI, he said, adding that he will be meeting bankers soon to take stock of the situation.
"I expects that they (banks) will take advantage of the monetary policy ... I will have to see that the credit is being made available," he said.
On the GDP expansion, the Finance Minister said that 6.5-7 per cent growth rate is a respectable growth for the current fiscal.
Asked about the inflation target for 2009-10, he said that the rate of price rise at 0.61 per cent (for the week ended 9th May) is reasonably down and provides enough leverage.
Mukherjee said that the government is equally committed to fiscal consolidation over 2-3 years and it will also make anti-money laundering regime stronger.
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