Cabinet Portfolio Announcement Live Updates: PM Modi's New Cabinet Meets For First Time, Clears Housing for Poor
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In its first decision, the Cabinet has cleared plans to build 3 crore houses for the rural and urban poor under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who took oath at the head of a coalition government, is holding his first cabinet meeting at his residence in Delhi. On agenda is advising the President to formulate the 18th Lok Sabha. In its first decision, the Cabinet has cleared plans to build 3 crore houses for the rural and urban poor under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. This morning, PM Modi signed his first file authorising the release of around Rs 20,000 crore to about 9.3 crore farmers. All eyes, meanwhile, are on the long-awaited allocation of portfolios.
Thirty cabinet ministers, new and old, took oath last evening at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Five Ministers of State with Independent charge and 36 junior ministers were also sworn in.
The cabinet meeting, though, is taking place amid grumblings from allies -- Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party, Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party and Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United.
