Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday reshuffled his Council of Ministers. Nine new faces were inducted whereas four Ministers of State (IC) were elevated to Cabinet rank namely; Dharmendra Pradhan, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. The new faces include four former bureaucrats and five Members of Parliament namely; Raj Kumar Singh (Retd IAS), Satya Pal Singh (Retd IPS), Alphons Kannanthanam (Retd IAS), Hardeep Singh Puri (Retd IFS), Shiv Pratap Shukla (MP), Ananth Kumar Hegde, Virendra Kumar, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Shiv Pratap Shukla, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. A brief introduction of newly inducted ministers: Raj Kumar Singh (Retd IAS:1975:BH): Former Union Home Secretary Raj Kumar Singh, a Lok Sabha MP from Arrah (Bihar), is a Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committees on Health and Family Welfare, Personnel, Pensions and Public Grievances and Law & Justice. In an illustrious career before, he served in multiple important roles of responsibility including Defence Production Secretary and Joint Secretary Home; as well as heading Home, Industries, Public Works and Agriculture amongst other departments in the Bihar Government. He is known for his contributions to schemes for Police Modernization and Prison Modernization, and laying down a framework for Disaster Management. A well-read man, Raj Kumar Singh studied English Literature at St. Stephens College, New Delhi, and got a Bachelors Degree in Law thereafter. He also went on to study at the RVB Delft University in Netherlands. Satya Pal Singh (IPS): Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Satya Pal Singh (Retd IPS:1980) is a Lok Sabha MP from Baghpat (UP). He is a Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs and Chairperson of the Joint Committee on Offices of Profit. Born in Basauli village in Baghpat, Satya Pal Singh has a MSc and MPhil in Chemistry, MBA in Strategic Management from Australia, MA in Public Administration as well as a PhD in Naxalism. He is known for breaking the backbone of organised crime syndicates in Mumbai in the 1990s.He served The Maharashtra cadre IPS has been recognized with medals like the Antrik Suraksha Sewa Padak by Government of India in 2008 and a Special Service Medal for extraordinary work in the Naxalite areas of Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in 1990. He has authored books on tribal conflict resolution and Naxalism. He is a scholar of Vedic studies and Sanskrit, and regularly delivers lectures on spirituality, religious harmony and corruption. Alphons Kannanthanam (Retd IAS:1979:KL) Alphons Kannanthanam is also a practicing advocate. He earned fame as Delhi's Demolition Man when he was Commissioner of the Delhi Development Authority. He had cleared DDA areas of encroachment removing around 15,000 illegal buildings. This got him listed in Time Magazine's list of 100 Young Global Leaders in 1994. Born in a non-electrified Manimala village in Kottayam district to a World War-II veteran, he pioneered the literacy movement in India as District Collector of Kottayam by making it the first 100% literate town in India in 1989. Alphons set up Janshakti, an NGO in 1994, to get citizens to believe in their ability to make government accountable to people. He was elected as an Independent Member of Legislative Assembly for Kanjirappally in Kerala from 2006 to 2011. Hardeep Singh Puri (Red IFS:1974): Former career Diplomat Hardeep Puri is known for his experience and expertise in foreign policy and national security. Currently he is the President and Chairman of Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) think tank, and was the Vice President o