NEW DELHI: The Inter-State Council was today reconstituted with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the head.
Besides chief ministers of all states and Union Territories, the Council has six Union Ministers as its members — Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Minister for Information and Broadcasting M Venkiah Naidu and Road Transport Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari.
The following Ministers will be permanent invitees: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan, Minister of Law and Justice and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Minister of Tribal Affairs Jual Oram, Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawar Chand Gehlot, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, Power Minister Piyush Goyal and Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
Administrators of Union Territories which do not have legislative Assembly will also be on the Council. (AGENCIES)
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