Magsaysay Award 2011

Nileema Mishra, who works with the poorest in Maharashtra, and Harish Hande, who revolutionised the use of solar lights, are among six persons chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2011.

Union Council of Ministers - As on July 12, 2011

Dr Manmohan Singh : Prime Minister and also in-charge of the Ministries/Departments not specifically allocated to the charge of any Minister viz, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; Planning; Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space

Cabinet Ministers

Pranab Mukherjee : Finance

Sharad Pawar : Agriculture; Food Processing Industries

A K Antony : Defence P Chidambaram : Home Affairs S M Krishna : External Affairs

Virbhadra Singh : Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Vilasrao Deshmukh : Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

Ghulam Nabi Azad : Health and Family Welfare

Sushil Kumar Shinde : Power

M Veerappa Moily : Corporate Affairs

Dr Farooq Abdullah : New and Renewable Energy

S Jaipal Reddy : Petroleum and Natural Gas

Kamal Nath : Urban Development

Vayalar Ravi : Overseas Indian Affairs; Civil Aviation.

Ambika Soni : Information and Broadcasting

Mallikarjun Kharge : Labour and Employment

Kapil Sibal : Human Resource Development; Communications and Information Technology.

Anand Sharma : Commerce and Industry; Textiles

C P Joshi : Road Transport and Highways

Kumari Selja : Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation; Culture

Subodh Kant Sahay : Tourism

G K Vasan : Shipping

P K Bansal : Parliamentary Affairs; Water

Resources Mukul Wasnik : Social Justice and Empowerment

M K Alagiri : Chemicals and Fertilizers

Praful Patel : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Shriprakash Jaiswal : Coal

Salman Khurshid : Law and Justice; Minority Affairs

V Kishore Chandra Deo : Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj

Beni Prasad Verma : Steel

Dinesh Trivedi : Railways

Jairam Ramesh : Rural Development.

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Dinsha J Patel : Mines

Krishna Tirath : Women and Child Development

Ajay Maken : Youth Affairs and Sports

Prof K V Thomas : Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Srikant Jena : Statistics and Programme Implementation and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers

Jayanthi Natarajan : Environment and Forests

Paban Singh Ghatowar : Development of North Eastern Region

Gurudas Kamat : Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministers of State

Ministers of State

E Ahamed : External Affairs; HRD

Mullappally Ramachandran: Home Affairs

V Narayanasamy : Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; PMO

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia: Commerce and Industry

D Purandeswari : HRD

K H Muniappa : Railways

Panabaka Lakshmi : Textiles

Namo Narain Meena : Finance

M M Pallam Raju : Defence

Saugata Ray : Urban Development

S S Palanimanickam : Finance.

Jitin Prasada : Road Transport and Highways

Preneet Kaur : External Affairs

Harish Rawat : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries; Parliamentary Affairs

Bharatsinh Solanki : Railways

Mahadev S Khandela : Tribal Affairs

Sisir Adhikari : Rural Development

Sultan Ahmed : Tourism

Mukul Roy : Shipping

Choudhury Mohan Jatua : Information and Broadcasting

D Napoleon : Social Justice and Empowerment

S Jagathrakshakan : Information and Broadcasting

S Gandhiselvan : Health and Family Welfare

Tusharbhai Chaudhary : Road Transport and Highways

Sachin Pilot : Communications and Information Technology

Prateek Prakashbapu Patil: Coal

R P N Singh : Petroleum and Natural Gas; Corporate Affairs

Vincent Pala : Water Resources; Minority Affairs

Pradeep Jain : Rural Development

Agatha Sangma : Rural Development

Ashwani Kumar : Planning; Science and Technology and Earth Sciences

K C Venugopal : Power

Sudip Bandyopadhyay : Health and Family Welfare

Charan Das Mahant : Agriculture and Food Processing Industries

Jitendra Singh : Home Affairs

Milind Deora : Communications and Information Technology

Rajeev Shukla : Parliamentary Affairs.