Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Vishnu Deo Sai on Friday allocated portfolios, offering the finance ministry to former IAS officer turned MLA OP Choudhary and the departments of general administration, excise, and mineral resources to himself.
The newly inducted state cabinet consists of twelve members.
The General Administration Department released a notice in the gazette stating that Sai will also be in charge of the ministries of Energy, Public Relations, Commercial Tax (Excise), and Transport in addition to any other departments that aren’t explicitly assigned to any minister.
Key departments including Home and Jail, Panchayat and Rural Development, Technical Education and Employment, and Science and Technology were assigned to Vijay Sharma.
Urban Administration, Law and Legislative Affairs, Public Works, and Public Health Engineering ministries would be under the leadership of another Deputy Chief Minister, Arun Sao.
O P Choudhary was assigned, besides Finance, Commercial Tax, Housing and Environment and Planning, Economics, and Statistics departments.
Senior party MLA and minister Brijmohan Agrawal was allocated School Education, Higher Education, Tourism and Culture, Parliamentary Affairs, and Dharmik Nyas (religious trust), and Dharmsva departments.
Ram Vichar Netam will be the minister for Agriculture Development and Farmer Welfare, Scheduled Tribes Development, Scheduled Castes Development, Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Minorities Development departments.
The lone minister from the Scheduled Castes community in the cabinet, Dayaldas Baghel, was assigned Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection. The 69-year-old Baghel is the oldest member in the Sai’s cabinet.
31-year-old Laxmi Rajwade, who is also the female minister in the cabinet and the youngest, has taken over the Women and Child Development and Social Welfare departments.
Lakhanlal Dewangan will oversee the departments of Commerce and Industry and Labor, while Kedar Kashyap will be in charge of the Forest and Climate Change, Water Resources, Skill Development, and Cooperative departments.
Shyam Bihari Jaiswal was given Public Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education, and Twenty Point Implementation departments.
Tankram Verma will be the minister for Sports and Youth Welfare and Revenue and Disaster Management departments.
The BJP reclaimed power in the state after defeating the Congress in the November Assembly elections.
(with PTI inputs)
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