new delhi the united progressive alliance upa coordination committee on friday night decided to set up a subcommittee on the separate telangana issue this gives telangana rashtra samithi president k chandrashekhar rao a basis to claim some progress on his pet issuein a minor reshuffle rao who is now without a portfolio would get labour and employment while jmm chief sibhu soren would be reinducted as coal minister labour minister seeshram olawho yields the portfolio to rao will be in charge of the mines ministry official sources said a rashtrapati bhavan spokesman said the expansion of the union council of ministers will take place at 3 pm on saturdaythe decision on the telangana panel was taken at a 3hour meeting of the coordination committee finance minister p chidambaram told reporters that the subcommittee would identify issues to be sorted out before a decision is takenthe upa governments national common minimum programme specifies that the telangana issue would be taken up after due consultations the subcommittee would be set up by upa chairperson sonia gandhi in consultation with the prime minister chidambaram said but made it clear that the vidarbha issue was not discussedthe upa meeting presided by the chairperson of the alliance and congress president sonia gandhi was attended by prime minister manmohan singh senior ministers pranab mukherjee arjun singh sharad pawar ram vilas paswan chandrashekhar rao mehbooba mufti and lalu prasad yadavcpm leader harkishan singh surjeet and cpi leader a b bardhan also attended the meeting as special invitees prior to the upa coordination committee meeting chandrashekhar rao met the prime ministerhowever he did not specify the issues raised by himearlier there were allout efforts to ensure that trs chief was allotted a berth and the soren is reinducted into the cabinetrao has been unhappy that he has not been suitably rewarded for his sacrifice in giving up the shipping ministry when the upa government was formedbut on being offered the labour portfolio he reportedly rejected it out of hand initially he was understood to be keen on being given a weightier berth