(IE)
After the cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for the first Union Cabinet meeting scheduled to be held on September 12, according to news agency ANI. The meeting is set to happen around 4.15 pm on Tuesday. The widely-anticipated cabinet reshuffle took place last week.
In the reshuffle that was held last Sunday, nine ministers were inducted and four others were promoted to a cabinet rank. Among the ministers who were promoted to the cabinet rank included Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (now Minister of Minority Affairs), Nirmala Sitharaman (MoS Defence), Piyush Goyal (MoS Railways and holds additional charge of the Coal Ministry) and Dharmendra Pradhan (Petroleum and Natural Gas with additional charge of Skill Development).
