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Piyush Goyal has been appointed as interim Finance Minister and interim Minister of Corporate Affairs as Arun Jaitley is unwell and in the US for treatment . Goyal, however , will retain his existing portfolios of coal and railways.
According to media reports, Jaitley has been designated as a minister without a portfolio during his period of indisposition.
It may be re – called that Goyal was earlier given additional charge of the Finance Ministry in May 2018 for a period of three months when Jaitley underwent a kidney transplant at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
Union Minister Arun Jaitley, 66, had left for the United States on January 13 for a “regular medical check-up”. There have been reports ever since that he may not return to present the interim Budget on February 1.
