Nepali King Gyanendra Monday reshuffled the Council of Ministers, or Cabinet, by appointing new ministers under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Girja Prasad Koirala.

The following is a list of the new cabinet members:

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala was assigned the portfolios of Defense, Royal Palace, Health and Population and Industry, Commerce and Supply

Deputy Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli was assigned for Foreign Affairs

Minister for Home: Krishna Sitaula

Minister for Finance: Ram Saran Mahat

Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives: Mahanta Thakur

Minister for Physical Planning and works: Gopal Man Shrestha

Minister for Land Reform and Management: Prabhu Narayan Chaudhari

Minister for Water Resources: Chitra Lekha Yadav

Minister for Local Development: Rajendra Pandey

Minister for Law: Narendra Bikram Nemwang

Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation: Pradip Gyanwali

Minister for Education and Sports: Mangal Siddhi Manandhar

State Minister for Forest, Land conservation: Gopal Rai

State Minister for Women, Chilren and Social Welfare: Urmila Aryal

State Minister for Information and Communication: Dilendra Prasad Badu

State Minister for Science and Technology: Man Bahadur B.K.

State Minister for General Administration: Dharma Saha

State Minister for Transport, Labor: Ramesh Lekhak

Source: Xinhua