Singh, facing the toughest schedule of his flash designate in company amid accelerating food inflation and corruption scandals, needs to fill several vacancies, selected which came not far off from as a answer of the departure of ministers on graft accusations.
Singh may well immediately kind cosmetic changes to fill vacancies or he may well rearrange selected controversial ministers, such as Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
Ramesh is seen as a reformist who has been criticised in organization and taking sides circles in place of blocking major engineering projects on organic concerns.
The rearrange may well reveal the direction the government will take, either to back reformist ministers or bow to taking sides appropriateness and industry pressures, in the run-up to of great consequence state elections this time and a broad-spectrum selection due by 2014.
"You may well expect something by January 26," thought a senior government source who is not authorised to chat to the media and declined to be identified.
Singh held a first acquaintance on Saturday to discuss cabinet changes and more meetings were likely in imminent days, thought an extra government representative.
Ruling conference crew spokesman Manish Tewari declined to comment on the risk of a rearrange, excluding to say: "Reshuffle is in the domain of the prime minister, he can resolve it some schedule."
Any ministerial rearrange will besides need the thumbs up of conference crew chief Sonia Gandhi, seen as the power behind the government and regarded as advance to the gone than the prime minister.
Ministerial vacancies maintain been formed by the resignations of Sashi Tharoor as junior foreign minister and Andimuthu Raja as telecommunications minister, the latter on a link to a $39 billion telecoms scam.
Several elderly and powerful ministers maintain been criticised in place of scuttling another thinking in government, frustrating labors en route for earlier reform, such as opening up the retail sector to foreign investors similar to a echoing selection victory in 2009.
Singh besides needs to take into tally the anxiety in place of government jobs from an of great consequence ally, the DMK crew, which held the telecommunications bureau.
Media maintain reported Environment Minister Ramesh might lose his job, as besides may well Roads Minister Kamal Nath's. Moving Ramesh, however, may well raise question on whether the government was succumbing to pressure from industry.
"I don't think he will be touched for the reason that he is very close to Sonia Gandhi," D H Pai Panandikar, head of exclusive think tank RPG Foundation, thought.
Clothed in September, Singh thought he would like to reduce the usual age of his cabinet, which is more than 64. Many ministers, together with Singh, are elder than 70.