Smriti, From Text Books To Textiles
Students said the move of the government to remove Irani shows that they surrender when there is some resistance, but opined that they could have opted for a better person to replace Irani. She may have denied reports that she often flung files at her officials, but the fact remains that few “babus” served under her for months at a stretch.
“Smritiji has been transferred from one ministry to the other”. Incidentally, a section of hardliners in the Sangh Parivar were reportedly in favour of continuing with Irani as the HRD Minister. I will talk to our earlier minister Murli Manohar Joshi in this regard, ” he told media persons in New Delhi.
The reshuffle also saw D V Sadananda Gowda being relieved of the Law and Justice portfolio which goes to Information Technology (IT) Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. If you want to build a modern India of 21st century, we have to revolutionaries our education. Now the Environment minister place was taken over by the BJP leader RS MP Anil Dave.
Naidu takes over from Arun Jaitley, who was holding the portfolio along with the other two portfolios – finance and corporate affairs.
The Congress had earlier accused the Modi government of giving concessions to Adani Port and SEZ Ltd., alleging it had withdrawn the Rs 200-crore fine imposed on the company for “environmental damage” caused during the construction of the Mundra port in Gujarat.
“GST is a very important Bill”.
“I value everyone’s opinion and at the same time we will have a larger discussion on it. My doors will be open for any suggestion”, he said.
In the last 40 years, I am into education in different roles-from student politics…to being a member in parliamentary committee on HRD”, said Javadekar, who replaced Smriti Irani in Tuesday’s cabinet rejig.
Accusing the government of making a “systematic” effort to “emasculate” India’s public education system and “handing over everything to the private sector”, he said such attempts would be more harmful for the poor.
“Thanks to Prakash ji who publicly praised my work and spoke of taking it forward”, she said. So getting rail connectivity in the region is a hard task.
Following the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2014 Indian General Election, he was appointed Minister State (Independent Charge) for Environment, Forests and Climate Change by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Ahluwalia gets Agriculture and Farmers welfare and Parliamentary Affairs.
State for Civil Aviation, while Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha will hold Communications portfolio too as Minister of State (Independent Charge).
She played up her achievements as Human Resource Development Minister.
She is being succeeded by Prakash Javadekar as the new HRD minister while she is going to take over as the textile minister. He said that Irani’s ignorance pertained to her lack of will to understand the functioning of our universities and dealing with them accordingly.