The Myanmar government made another major reshuffle of its cabinet Thursday, reassigning four ministers, allowing two deputy ministers to resign, appointing and reshuffling 10 other deputy ministers as well as a number of ministries.

According to an announcement of the President's Office on Thursday night, former Minister of Rail Transportation U Zeya Aung was reassigned as minister of energy, while former Minister of Labor, Employment and Social Welfare U Maung Myint as minister of industry, former Minister of Industry U Aye Myint as minister of labor, employment and social welfare, and former Minister of Energy U Than Htay as minister of rail transportation.

Two deputy ministers with education and rail transportation ministries U Aye Kyu and Thura U Thaung Lwin were allowed to resign.

Of the 10 other deputy ministers, five were newly appointed and five others were given other jobs.

Significantly, former Police Chief Brigadier-General Kyaw Kyaw Tun was reassigned as deputy home minister and the vacant post of police chief was taken up by his deputy Brigadier-General Zaw Win.

The reassigned Minister of Energy U Zeya Aung, who was a major general, had been a Northern Commander before he took the post of minister of rail transportation.

It is the second major government cabinet reshuffle since President U Thein Sein took office on March 30, 2011.

The first cabinet reshuffle took place in September 2012 when the president named 11 new faces to ministerial posts and one new auditor-general with the approval of the parliament.

During that cabinet reshuffle, four ministries were added to the President's Office to become six such ministries and two ministries of electric power No. 1 and No. 2 were merged to a single ministry and the Ministry of Industrial Development was disbanded.

That reshuffle came after Vice President U Tin Aung Myint Oo resigned from post and was replaced by U Nyan Tun, who was a former naval chief with the approval of the parliament.

During 2013, the government office also assigned Deputy Minister of Information U Ye Htut as spokesperson for President U Thein Sein, while reforming a nine-member new constitutional tribunal of Myanmar, led by U Mya Thein, who is a retired director- general of the Supreme Court.

Myanmar President U Thein Sein often called on his newly- appointed government cabinet members, including ministers and deputy ministers, to make all-out efforts to materialize good governance and clean government.

Meanwhile, Myanmar's union parliament adopted on Thursday a proposal to form a 109-member Joint Committee for Review of 2008 Constitution to make necessary amendment on the 2008 State Constitution in preparation for the 2015 general election.

The committee, set up with the deputy speaker of the Union Parliament as chairman, is represented proportionally by parliament members of both Houses, political parties, military MPs and other individuals.