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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Manmohan Singh's new Cabinet - Pronunciation advice

Yesterday's reshuffle brought in some new faces to the Union Cabinet. Here is a guide to pronounce their names (this is based on how the ministers themselves pronounced their names while taking oath). You can see the oath taking ceremony video here.


NEW MINISTERS
Cabinet ministers


V. Kishore Chandra Deo: Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj  वी किशोर चन्द्र देव 
Beni Prasad Verma: Steel बेनी प्रसाद वर्मा
Dinesh Trivedi: Railways दिनेश त्रिवेदी
Jairam Ramesh: Rural Development (earlier Environment and Forests) जयराम रमेश
Ministers of State (Independent charge)
Srikant Jena: Statistics and Programme Implementation and Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers स्रीकांत जेना
Jayanthi Natarajan: Environment and Forests जयंती नटअराजन
Paban Singh Ghatowar: Development of North Eastern Region पवन सिंह घाटोवर
Gurudas Kamat: Drinking Water and Sanitation गुरुदास कामत (he resigned soon after) 
Ministers of State
Sudip Bandopadhyaya: Health and Family Welfare शुदीप बन्दोपाध्याय (the correct pronunciation of the surname should be बॉन्दोपाध्याय, but he himself said it as 'बन्दो')
Charan Das Mahant: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries चरन  दास बिसाहू दास  महंत
Jitendra Singh: Home Affairs जितेन्द्र सिंह
Milind Deora: Communications and Information Technology मिलिन्द देवरा
Rajiv Shukla: Parliamentary Affairs राजीव शुक्ल (note he does not pronounce the last elongated vowel sound)
CHANGE IN PORTFOLIOS
Cabinet Ministers
Vilasrao Deshmukh: Science and Technology and Earth Sciences विलास राव देशमुख
M. Veerappa Moily: Corporate Affairs (earlier Law and Justice) एम वीरप्पअ मोय्ली
His full name (used while taking the oath) is MooDabidari Veerappa Moily मूडअबिदरि वीरप्पअ मोय्ली
Anand Sharma: Commerce and Industry; and additional charge of Textiles आनन्द शर्मा
Pawan Kumar Bansal: Parliamentary Affairs and additional charge of Water Resources पवन कुमार बंसल
Salman Khursheed: Law and Justice and additional charge of Minority Affairs सलमान ख़ुर्शीद 
Ministers of State
E. Ahamed: External Affairs and Human Resource Development ई अहमद
V. Narayanasamy: Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; and Prime Minister's Office वी नारायणअस्वामी
Harish Rawat: Agriculture and Food Processing Industries; and Parliamentary Affairs हरीश रावत
Mukul Roy: Shipping मुकुल रॉय
Ashwani Kumar: Planning; Science and Technology and Earth Sciences अश्विनी कुमार

The other ministers can be seen taking oath here

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