Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has allotted portfolios to the ministers in his cupboard and stored the cost of 21 departments, together with dwelling and knowledge, to himself. The allocation of portfolios late Tuesday got here practically every week after the ministers took the oath of workplace.
Chief minister Dhami’s portfolios embrace the secretariat administration, basic administration, property, data, dwelling, income, industrial improvement (mining), labour, data expertise and science expertise, consuming water, energy, Ayush, excise, justice, civil aviation, surroundings safety and local weather change, catastrophe administration, and rehabilitation. During his earlier tenure, Dham was answerable for 12 ministries.
Not a lot has been modified within the portfolio of senior cupboard minister Satpal Maharaj. Maharaj has been given cost of the Public Works Department (PWD), Panchayati Raj, rural building, tradition, spiritual affairs, tourism, flood management, and irrigation. Maharaj is each the eldest and richest minister within the Dhami cupboard of eight ministers.
Dhan Singh Rawat has been given extra accountability with the varsity schooling of each primary and secondary ranges together with the upper schooling division going beneath him. Rawat will even be the minister of Medical Health and Education together with that of Cooperation and Cultural Education. In the earlier cupboard, he was answerable for the upper schooling, cooperatives, catastrophe administration, dairy improvement, and protocols departments.
Subodh Uniyal, who served because the agriculture minister within the earlier Uttarakhand cupboard, has been given cost of the forest, language, election and technical schooling departments. The solely girl within the new cupboard, Rekha Arya, has been given the portfolios of ladies empowerment and youngster improvement, meals, civil provides and client safety, and sports activities and youth welfare departments. Ganesh Joshi has been given the accountability of agriculture and farmer welfare, soldier welfare and village improvement.
Out of the three first-time ministers, former speaker Prem Chand Agarwal has crucial portfolios of finance, housing and concrete improvement, parliamentary affairs, and census. Saurabh Bahuguna, the son of former Uttarakhand CM Vijay Bahuguna, has been given the accountability of animal husbandry, dairy improvement, fisheries, talent improvement, protocol and sugarcane improvement, and sugar commerce departments. He is one other new face within the cupboard.
Chandan Ram Das, a four-time MLA from the Bageshwar constituency and a first-time minister, was given the portfolio of social welfare, minority welfare, transport, and micro, small and medium industries.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
