Ashwini Vaishnaw , the former IAS officer of the 1994 batch, will be the new Railway Minister as well as Ministry of Communications and Information under the Modi government's mega cabinet expansion. The 50-year-old IAS officer, has a MBA from Wharton School, Pennysylvania University and MTech from IIT Kanpur. He developed 5 mtpa coal import terminal, privatized container business, developed cruise terminal, three mooring dolphins and implemented ERP at Goa Port. Before Vaishnaw, Piyush Goyal was heading the Ministry of Railways and Ravi Shankar Prasad was heading the Ministry of Communications. However, in the new cabinet reshuffle, Goyal will keep Ministry of Commerce, in addition to Ministry of Textile and Ministry of Consumer Welfare.

Source: Mint July 07, 2021 16:44 UTC