MINISTERS OF STATE (MoS)

June 18, 2019

In an effort to involve Union Ministers of State (MoS) in the decision-making process, the Cabinet Secretariat has directed all ministries to ensure that files are routed to the Cabinet ministers through the MoS concerned.

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This year new paragraph has been added by the Cabinet Secretariat in the work allocation orders. It states that all files, including starred questions of Parliament and calling attention motions, will have to be routed to ministers through the MoS.
Several ministers of state were not happy about the lack of sufficient work assigned to them in previous governments as hardly any Cabinet minister wanted his/her junior to share power.
Earlier, they handled relatively low-key subjects such as official language and unstarred questions of Parliament, among others.
The new NDA government has 31 Ministers of State, nine of them with Independent charges.

Source : Indian Express