The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is today inducting eight new faces in the union council of ministers. Three other ministers have been elevated to cabinet rank. The resignation of the seven ministers has been accepted. There is no change in portfolios of Finance, Home, Defence and External Affairs ministries. M Veerappa Moily has shifted from Law to Corporate Affairs and brought Salman Khursheed in his place. Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi has been elevated to the Cabinet rank and given the Railways portfolio Beni Prasad Verma becomes a Cabinet Minister for Steel, a portfolio he earlier held as Minister of State with Independent charge. The other new faces in the Council of Ministers are Jayanthi Natarajan who gets Environment and Forests, Dibrugarh MP Paban Singh Ghatowar (DONER), Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandopadhyaya (Health and Family Welfare), Alwar MP Jitendra Singh ,Home, Milind Deora ,Communication and IT and Rajiv Shukla , Parliamentary Affairs. Ministers who stand dropped from the Cabinet are M S Gill (Statistics and Programme Implementation),B K Handique(DONER), Kantilal Bhuria (Tribal Affairs), Murli Deora (Corporate Affairs) and Dayanidhi Maran (Textiles). The new ministers would be sworn in at a function at the Rashtrapati Bhawan this evening after which the strength of the Council will go up by one to 68. Additional charge of Textiles and Water Resources is being given to Anand Sharma and P K Bansal respectively. Sharma retains Commerce and Industry and Bansal retains Parliamentary Affairs. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal continues to hold additional charge of Telecom, while Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi retains additional charge of Civil Aviation. Veteran Parliamentarian from Andhra Pradesh V Kishore Chandra Deo makes his entry into the Cabinet for the first time, making him the second minister from the state after S Jaipal Reddy. Srikant Jena, who was made Minister of State in 2009, has got a promotion being given Independent charge of Statistics and Programme Implementation. However, he continues to be MoS in Chemicals and Fertilisers where DMK's M K Alagiri continues to be Cabinet minister. Jena was a Cabinet Minister in the United Front government of 1996-97 .Charan Das Mahant makes a debut as MoS in Agriculture and Food Processing. Gurudas Kamat has been shifted from Home and Communication ministries to a new ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation with Independent Charge. Rural Development Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has been shifted to Science and Technology and Earth Sciences. Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed has been also been allocated the HRD portfolio. Minsters of State V Narayanasamy and Ashwani Kumar shed Parliamentary Affairs portfolios which have gone to new entrant Rajiv Shukla and Harish Rawat, who retains MoS for Agriculture and Food Processing. Minister of State for Shipping and Railways Mukul Roy, has been divested of the Railways portfolio gets parliamentary affairs Ministers of State for Steel and Rural Development A. Sai Prathap and Arun Yadav respectively were also dropped from the Council of Ministers. Yadav, the son of Madhya Pradesh Congress leader Subhash Yadav, has been appointed as AICC Secretary.