Bihar Cabinet Portfolios: Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Thursday allocated portfolios to his cabinet members, who took oath today in Patna, as part of cabinet expansion. The chief minister kept the General Administration, State Home Ministry, Cabinet Secretariat, Vigilance Department, Civil Aviation Ministry and all such departments that have not been allocated to anyone.

Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Chudhary was given the Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs, while his counterpart Bijendra Prasad Yadav got the responsibility of the Finance Ministry.

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Nishant Kumar, son of former chief minister Nitish Kumar, was given the post of Health Ministry, which was earlier held by BJP leader Mangal Pandey. Vijay Kumar Sinha was allocated the Agriculture Ministry.

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Here Is Full List Of Portfolios Allocation:

Sr. No.    Name of Minister       Department

01 Samrat Choudhary: General Administration, Home, Ministerial Secretariat, Urban Development, Election, Civil Aviation, and all other departments not allocated to anyone

02 Vijay Kumar Choudhary        Water Resources And Parliamentary Affairs

03 Bijendra Prasad Yadav          Finance, Commerce & Industry

04 Shrawan Kumar                   Rural Development Information & Public Relations

05 Vijay Kumar Sinha               Agriculture

06 Dilip Kumar Jaiswal              Revenue & Land Reforms

07 Nishant                               Health

08 Leshi Singh                         Building Construction

09 Ram Kripal Yadav                Cooperation

10 Nitish Mishra                       Urban Development & Housing and Information Technology

11 Damodar Rawat                  Transport

12 Sanjay Singh Dangarh        Higher Education And Law

13 Ashok Choudhary               Food & Consumer Protection

14 Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha  Planning & Development

15 Arun Shankar Prasad          Labour Resources & Migrant Workers Welfare, Youth, Employment & Skill Development

16 Madan Sahni                      Minor Water Resources Registration

17 Santosh Kumar Suman       Minor Irrigation

18 Ruma Nishad                     Backward Class Welfare & Extremely Backward Class Welfare

19 Ratnesh Sada                    Disaster Management

20 Kumar Shailendra               Road Construction

21 Shila Kumari                      Science, Technology & Technical Education

22 Kedar Prasad Gupta            Tourism

23 Lakhendra Kumar Raihan    Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Welfare

24 Sunil Kumar                       Panchayati Raj

25 Brijesh Singh                     Industries And Sports

26 Jama Khan                         Minority Welfare

27 Nandkishore Ram                Dairy, Animal Husbandry & Fisheries Resources

28 Shailesh Kumar                  Energy

29 Premod Kumar                   Mines & Geology Art & Culture

30 Sweta Gupta                      Social Welfare

31 Mithilesh Tiwari                  Education

32 Ramchandra Prasad            Environment, Forest & Climate Change

33 Sanjay Kumar Singh           Public Health Engineering

34 Sanjay Kumar                    Sugar Industry

35 Deepak Prakash                  Panchayati Raj

 


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