New Delhi, Sep 16 (TIWN) With a new PMO taking shape under Prime Minister Modi, given that Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra has demitted office, the allocation of duties and work distribution has been firmed up. Both the new Principal Secretary P.K. Mishra and NSA Ajit Doval continue to have Cabinet rank.

Nirmala Sitharaman has been given the Ministry of Finance and Corporate Affairs.  President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, on Friday, directed the allocation of portfolios among recently sworn-in ministers, as advised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  Smriti Irani, who defeated Congress president Rahul Gandhi in the Nehru-Gandhi family bastion of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, was made the Minister of Women and Child Development and was also given the charge of Ministry of Textiles, which she headed in the previous Modi government.