Union Cabinet holds first physical meeting in over a year | India News

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a Union Cabinet meet on Wednesday, its first physical meeting in over a year.
Senior ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh Nirmala Sitharaman and Nitin Gadkari were among the ministers present.
The minutes of the meeting are awaited.
Sources said the last Cabinet meeting held physically was in the first week of April last year, when the coronavirus pandemic struck the country.

The Union Cabinet had, however, been meeting regularly almost every week through video conferencing, even during lockdown.
The prime minister will also chair a meeting of the Council of Ministers at 4 pm through video conferencing.
This is the second time in a week that the Council of Ministers will meet after its expansion on July 7, with the induction of 43 new ministers.
The new Council of Ministers had met on July 8.
Sources said the upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament may have been one of the reasons for the frequent convening of the meeting of Council of ministers.
The Monsoon session is set to begin from July 19, and will continue till August 13.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has called an all-party meeting of floor leaders on July 18.
The BJP’s Parliamentary Party executive meeting is scheduled to be held on July 18. NDA floor leaders’ meet is also scheduled for the same day
(With PTI inputs)