All the 41 ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal, including chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, were allocated their portfolios on Wednesday.All the 41 ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal including chief minister Suvendyu Adhikari, were allocated their portfolios on Wednesday (HT Photo/ANI)CM Adhikari will be the minister-in-charge of home and hill affairs, land and land reforms and refugee, relief and rehabilitation, power, information and cultural affairs, personnel and administrative reforms, and other departments not allotted to other ministers.Also Read | Bengal to drop ‘dham’ from Digha Jagannath temple on Odisha’s CM’s requestWhile Adhikari took oath as the chief minister along with five other cabinet ministers on May 9, another 35 ministers took oath on June 1. There are now 19 cabinet ministers, including Adhikari, three ministers of state with independent charge, and 19 ministers of state.Swapan Dasgupta, who won from Rashbehari in Kolkata, was placed in charge of the finance department. BJP MLA from Bidhannagar, Sharadwat Mukherjee, was made the health minister. Nishith Pramanik, former Union minister, has been made in charge of North Bengal development and water resources. Former state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has been given charge of Panchayats, Rural Development and Agriculture Marketing. Agnimitra Paul was given Urban Development and Municipal Affairs.Also Read | Mamata Banerjee meets Sonia Gandhi as CID searches ex-Bengal CM, nephew Abhishek's Kolkata officesAmong the ministers of state with independent charge, Indranil Khan was given the Youth Services and Sports and Consumer Affairs departments.Here is the full list:Cabinet ministersSuvendu Adhikari (Chief Minister): Home and Hill Affairs; Land and Land Reforms and Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation; Power; Information and Cultural Affairs; Personnel and Administrative Reforms; all departments not allotted to other ministersNishith Pramanik: North Bengal Development; Water Resources Investigation and DevelopmentAshok Kirtania: Food and Supplies; Co-operationDilip Ghosh: Panchayats and Rural Development; Agricultural MarketingKshudiram Tudu: Tribal Development; Minority Affairs; Madrasah EducationAgnimitra Paul: Urban Development and Municipal AffairsDipak Barman: School Education; Housing; MSME and TextilesTapas Roy: Industry, Commerce and Enterprises; Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction; Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy SourcesDr. Shankar Ghosh: Parliamentary Affairs; TourismManoj Kumar Oraon: Forests; EnvironmentArjun Singh: Labour; TransportGouri Sankar Ghosh: Backward Classes Welfare; Mass Education Extension and Library ServicesJagannath Chattopadhyay: Higher Education and Technical Education; Training and Skill DevelopmentSwapan Dasgupta: FinanceDr. Kalyan Chakraborti: Information Technology and Electronics; Science and Technology and Biotechnology; Food Processing Industries and HorticultureDr. Sharadwat Mukherjee: Health and Family WelfareArup Kumar Das: Irrigation and WaterwaysDr. Ajay Kumar Poddar: Public Health Engineering; Public WorksDudh Kumar Mondal: AgricultureMinisters of State (Independent Charge)Malati Rava Roy: Women and Child Development and Social Welfare; Self Help Group and Self Employment; Programme MonitoringRajesh Mahata: Animal Resources Development; FisheriesDr. Indranil Khan: Youth Services and Sports; Consumer AffairsMinisters of StateJoyel Murmu: Tribal Development; Irrigation and WaterwaysDr. Hare Krishna Bera: Higher Education and Technical Education; Training and Skill DevelopmentAnandamay Barman: Transport; FinanceAshoke Dinda: Agricultural Marketing; MSME and TextilesNadiar Chand Bouri: Public Works; Backward Classes WelfareBishal Lama: Home and Hill Affairs; Minority Affairs; Madrasah EducationSantanu Pramanik: Food and Supplies; Panchayats and Rural DevelopmentMoumita Biswas Misra: Industry, Commerce and Enterprises; Science and Technology and BiotechnologyUmesh Rai: Parliamentary Affairs; Urban Development and Municipal AffairsPurnima Chakraborty: Information and Cultural Affairs; TourismKoushik Chowdhury: School Education; Fire and Emergency Services
Bengal Cabinet portfolios announced: CM Suvendu keeps home, land and power; Swapan Dasgupta gets finance
Swapan Dasgupta, who won from Rashbehari in Kolkata, was placed in charge of the finance department. Sharadwat Mukherjee, was made the health minister. | India News









