(ET)
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has been given additional charge of the Ministry of Finance & Corporate Affairs with immediate effect, read a communiqué from the Rashtrapati Bhavan. He will also retain his current portfolios of coal & Railways. Arun Jaitley who is currently undergoing treatment at the US, has been designated as a minister without portfolio during the period of his indisposition or till such time when he is able to resume his work as the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Corporate Affairs. Piyush Goyal, a chartered account, replaced Suresh Prabhu as the railway minister after Prabhu offered to resign after a spate of train accidents.
