Rajasthan govt portfolio distribution: Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on Friday distributed portfolios to his cabinet ministers, keeping Home, Excise among eight departments with himself.
Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari has got six departments including the Finance Department, Tourism Department and Women & Child Development while Deputy CM Prem Chand Bairwa has got four departments including Higher Education Department and Road Transport and Highways.
Cabinet minister Kirodi Lal Meena has got the Agriculture and Rural Development, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has been made Industry and Commerce, Sports and Youth Affairs minister, Gajendra Singh Khimsar has got Medical Health and Sciences (ESI), and Madan Dilawar is now the Education (Primary and Secondary), Sanskrit Education and Panchayati Raj minister.
A total of 22 ministers had taken oath on December 30.
Chief Minister Sharma retained the departments of personnel, planning, information and public relations, and anti-corruption bureau.
Kanhaiya Lal has public health and engineering and groundwater departments, and Jogaram will be the minister of parliamentary affairs, law and legal affairs.
Suresh Singh Rawat was allotted the water resources department, Avinash Gehlot social justice and empowerment and Sumit Godara food and civil supplies and consumer affairs.
The tribal area development and the home guards departments were given to Babulal Kharadi, while Hemant Meena got the revenue and colonisation departments.
The ministers of state were also allotted portfolios. Minister of State (Independent charge) Surendra Pal Singh TT was given the agriculture marketing board, command area development and water utilisation department, Indira Gandhi canal department and the minority affairs department.
Surendra Pal Singh is the BJP's nominee for the Karanpur seat where polling was held on Friday. He was sworn in as a minister in the ceremony held last week.
Other ministers of state with independent charge are Sanjay Sharma (forest, environment and climate change, science and technology), Gautam Kumar (cooperatives, civil aviation), Jhabar Singh Kharra (urban development, local self-government) and Heera Lal Nagar (energy).
Ministers of state Otaram Devasi (Panchayati Raj, rural development, disaster management), Manju Baghmar (public works department, women and child development, child rights department), Vijay Singh (revenue, colonisation, Sainik Kalyan), KK Vishnoi (industry and commerce, youth affairs and sports, skill development and entrepreneurship) and Jawahar Singh Bedham (home, 'gopalan' or cow care, animal husbandry and dairy and fisheries) were also allotted portfolios.
Earlier in the day, Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra approved the list of portfolios for the ministers as proposed by the chief minister.
With inputs from PTI
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