Non-performing assets
In January, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reshuffled the portfolios of several of his Cabinet ministers. These included portfolios of some key economic ministers who had been facing criticism for their inaction and sloth. If Singh had thought the reshuffle would enthuse his two-year old United Progressive Alliance, or UPA, government, he could not have been more off-the-mark. One hundred days after the reshuffle, the seven Cabinet ministers who got the economic ministries - barring S. Jaipal Reddy, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas - have shown little of either initiative or results.