Jaitley resumes charge as finance minister

NEW DELHI: Arun Jaitley resumed charge of the Union ministries of finance and corporate affairs on Friday after about a month and attended the cabinet committee on security (CCS) meeting on the Pulwama terror attack as his first official engagement.

“The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has directed to assign the portfolios of the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs to Shri Arun Jaitley,” a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said.

Union minister Piyush Goyal was given additional charge of finance and corporate affairs from January 23 this year when Jaitley was away in the US for medical treatment.