Interim Budget 2019: Days before, Goyal gets additional charge of FinMin

Jaitley will be minister without portfolio, the government announced days before it presents the interim budget on February 1

Railway minister Piyush Goyal has been given additional charge of finance and corporate affairs ministries as incumbent Arun Jaitley gets medical treatment in the US, it was announced on Wednesday.

Jaitley's portfolios have been temporarily assigned to Goyal in addition to his existing portfolios, said a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique.

Jaitley has been designated as a minister without portfolio "during the period of his indisposition or till such time when he is able to resume his work", the communique said days before the government presents the interim budget on February 1. 

Goyal, 54, was in charge of the finance