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Prime Minister Narendra Modi expanded his team on Sunday by appointing 21 new ministers, four of them in the Cabinet and three others as ministers of state with independent charge. (PTI)

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The exercise had the stamp of deft hand play by the Modi-Amit Shah duo as it looked to beef up administrative efficiency while taking into account political requirements. (BCCL)

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Nadda moves into the health ministry and Suresh Prabhu, who left Shiv Sena to join the BJP just before being sworn in, replaces Gowda as railway minister. Parrikar has been given the defence portfolio, while the Haryana Jat leader, Birendra Singh, has got rural development. While Vardhan has been given science and technology, Gowda has been shifted to law and justice. (BCCL)

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The three ministers of state with independent charge are former aviation minister RajivPratap Rudy and first-time MP from Noida Mahesh Sharma. Sharma has been given independent charge of tourism and culture, while he is also MoS civil aviation. (BCCL)

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Rudy has independent charge of the newly-created ministry of skill development, a pet project of Modi, and will assist VenkaiahNaidu in parliamentary affairs. BandaruDattatreya, the party's lone MP from Telangana, will be in charge of labour. (BCCL)

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With this round of cabinet expansion, Modi has 66 ministers in his council. He still has headroom for at least 13 more ministers as the maximum he can induct are 79 ministers. (PTI)

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While he may not go up to that number, there is a good possibility of a third round of expansion, albeit a modest one. The last UPA government had 78 Union ministers. (PTI)

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While Shiv Sena did not let its nominee Anil Desai take oath because of tensions with BJP, Y S Chaudhary from TDP was sworn in as MoS. (PTI)

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Modi's ministerial expansion appeared to be driven by the concern to improve the functioning of key ministries. The allocation of defence, held so far by Arun Jaitley as additional charge, is meant to free up the finance minister so that he can focus on the task of presenting—as PM recently told secretaries— a "transformational budget" and speed up economic reforms. (PTI)

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