A day after the Council of Ministers were sworn-in, Cabinet Ministers have been allocated with their portfolios.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved creation of an agency for a coordinated development and modernisation of railway stations in the country, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

The Union Cabinet is likely to take up a new telecom policy -- National Digital Communications Policy 2018 -- on Wednesday, a source with knowledge of the matter said.

The promoted ministers and the new faces were administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Nath Kovind at a 35-minute ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, attended among others by Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Modi, BJP President Amit Shah.