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Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Latest updated list of new Union Ministers and their Portfolios as on 10.11/2014 - PDF Download


Prime Minister Narendra Modi expanded his team on 09 November 2014 (Sunday) by appointing 21 new ministers, four of them in the Cabinet and three others as ministers of state with independent charge. Manohar Parrikar, Suresh Prabhu, J P Nadda and Birendra Singh have been inducted into the Cabinet, while health minister Harsh Vardhan and railway minister Sadanand Gowda have been replaced and given lesser portfolios. Here is the complete updated list of ministers and their portfolios.

1.
Shri Narendra Modi
Prime Minister
Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic EnergyDepartment of Space; All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

CABINET MINISTERS


1.
Shri Raj Nath Singh
Home Affairs
2.
Smt. Sushma Swaraj
External Affairs
Overseas Indian Affairs
3.
Shri Arun Jaitley
Finance, Corporate Affairs, Information & Broadcasting
4.
Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu
Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
5.
Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari
Road Transport and Highways, Shipping
6.
Shri Manohar Parrikar
Defence
7.
Shri Suresh Prabhu
Railways
8.
Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda
Law & Justice
9.
Sushri Uma Bharati
Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
10.
Dr. Najma A. Heptulla
Minority Affairs
11.
Shri Ramvilas Paswan
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
12.
Shri Kalraj Mishra
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
13.
Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi
Women and Child Development
14.
Shri Ananthkumar
Chemicals and Fertilizers
15.
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad
Communications and Information Technology
16.
Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda
Health & Family Welfare
17.
Shri Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati
Civil Aviation
18.
Shri Anant Geete
Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
19.
Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Food Processing Industries
20.
Shri Narendra Singh Tomar
Mines, Steel
21.
Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh
Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
22.
Shri Jual Oram
Tribal Affairs
23.
Shri Radha Mohan Singh
Agriculture
24.
Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot
Social Justice and Empowerment
25.
Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani
Human Resource Development
26.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan
Science and Technology, Earth Sciences
Check out the list of Ministers of State with Independent charge and Ministers of State from the below link.

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Central Govt employee opts for a surrogate child – What says CCS (Leave) Rules..?



Can Central Govt Female Employees Opting for Surrogate Pregnancy Claim Maternity Leave?

Parenthood is a gift of god. Thanks to the development in medical sciences, childless couples can now opt for surrogate pregnancies. If women employees of Central Government organizations opt for surrogate pregnancies, can they claim maternity leave?

Women employees of Central Government establishments are given Maternity leave for a period of 180 days and male employees are given Paternity Leave for a period of 15 days if they choose to adopt babies. At present, there is no leave entitlements for parents of the surrogate child.

Let’s see what the Indian medical Research Council has to say about couples who choose to have babies through surrogate mothers.

Surrogacy: General Considerations

A child born through surrogacy must be adopted by the genetic (biological) parents unless they can establish through genetic (DNA) fingerprinting (of which the records will be maintained in the clinic) that the child is theirs.Guidelines for ART Clinics in India ICMR/NAMS

Surrogacy by assisted conception should normally be considered only for patients for whom it would be physically or medically impossible/undesirable to carry a baby to term.

Payments to surrogate mothers should cover all genuine expenses associated with the pregnancy. Documentary evidence of the financial arrangement for surrogacy must be available. The ART centre should not be involved in this monetary aspect.

Advertisements regarding surrogacy should not be made by the ART clinic. The responsibility of finding a surrogate mother, through advertisement or otherwise, should rest with the couple, or a semen bank.

A surrogate mother should not be over 45 years of age. Before accepting a woman as a possible surrogate for a particular couple’s child, the ART clinic must ensure (and put on record) that the woman satisfies all the testable criteria to go through a successful full-term pregnancy.

A relative, a known person, as well as a person unknown to the couple may act as a surrogate mother for the couple. In the case of a relative acting as a surrogate, the relative should belong to the same generation as the women desiring the surrogate.

A prospective surrogate mother must be tested for HIV and shown to be seronegative for this virus just before embryo transfer. She must also provide a written certificate that (a) she has not had a drug intravenously administered into her through a shared syringe, (b) she has not undergone blood transfusion; and (c) she and her husband (to the best of her/his
knowledge) has had no extramarital relationship in the last six months.

(This is to ensure that the person would not come up with symptoms of HIV infection during the period of surrogacy.) The prospective surrogate mother must also declare that she will not use drugs intravenously, and not undergo blood transfusion excepting of blood obtained through a certified blood bank.

No woman may act as a surrogate more then thrice in her lifetime

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