• Source:JND

UP Cabinet Expansion: On the eighth day of the second expansion of his cabinet, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has divided the departments among six new and two promoted ministers of state (independent charge). The second cabinet expansion of the CM Yogi's government took place on May 10. The portfolios were distributed on Sunday night.

Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary, who returned to the government as a minister after completing his term as BJP state president, has been given the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Department. This is a priority department for the government. Until now, this department was held by Rakesh Sachan. Now, he is left with Khadi and Village Industries, Silk Industry, Handloom and Textile Industry.

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Manoj Kumar Pandey, who rebelled against the Samajwadi Party and voted for the BJP in the Rajya Sabha election, has been given the crucial portfolio of Food, Logistics and Civil Supplies, which until now was held by the Chief Minister.

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Distribution Of Departments Among Ministers Of Yogi Cabinet

Name of the Minister Department
Yogi Adityanath (Chief Minister) Appointment, Personnel, Home, Vigilance, Housing and Urban Planning, Revenue, Geology and Mining, Economics and Numbers, State Tax and Registration, General Administration, Secretariat Administration, Secrecy, Information, Election, Institutional Finance, Planning, State Property, UP Reorganization Coordination, Administrative Reforms, Program Implementation, Infrastructure, Language, Destitute Relief and Rehabilitation, Public Service Management, Rent Control, Protocol, Civil Aviation, Justice and Legislative, Charitable Work, Public Works Department
Keshav Prasad Maurya (Deputy Chief Minister) Rural Development and Comprehensive Rural Development and Rural Engineering, Food Processing, Entertainment Tax and Public Enterprises and National Integration
Brajesh Pathak (Deputy Chief Minister) Medical Education, Medical and Health, Family Welfare and Mother and Child Welfare
Suresh Kumar Khanna Finance and Parliamentary Affairs
Surya Pratap Shahi Agriculture, Agricultural Education and Agricultural Research
Swatantra Dev Singh Water power and flood control
Baby Rani Maurya Women Welfare, Child Development and Nutrition
Laxmi Narayan Choudhary Sugarcane Development and Sugar Mills
Jaiveer Singh Tourism and Culture
Dharampal Singh Livestock and Dairy Development
Nand Gopal Gupta 'Nandi' Industrial development, export promotion, NRI and investment promotion
Anil Rajbhar Labour and Employment Coordination
Rakesh Sachan Khadi and Village Industries, Silk Industry, Handloom and Textile Industry
Arvind Kumar Sharma Urban development, urban comprehensive development, urban employment and poverty alleviation, energy and surplus energy
Yogendra Upadhyay Higher education
Ashish Patel Technical Education, Consumer Protection and Weights and Measures
Sanjay Nishad fish
Om Prakash Rajbhar Panchayati Raj, Minority Welfare, Muslim Waqf and Haj
Dara Singh Chauhan prison
Sunil Kumar Sharma Electronics and Information Technology
Anil Kumar Science and Technology
Bhupendra Chaudhary Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Manoj Kumar Pandey Food and Civil Supplies

Minister Of State (Independent Charge)

Name Department
Nitin Agarwal Excise and Prohibition
Kapil Dev Agarwal Vocational Education and Skill Development
Ravindra Jaiswal Stamp and Court Fees and Registration
Sandeep Singh Basic Education
Gulab Devi Secondary education
Girish Chandra Yadav Sports and Youth Welfare
Dharamveer Prajapati Home Guards, Civil Defence
Aseem Arun Social Welfare, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare
Jayendra Pratap Singh Rathore Co-operative
Dayashankar Singh transportation
Narendra Kumar Kashyap Backward Classes Welfare and Disability Empowerment
Dinesh Pratap Singh Horticulture, Agricultural Marketing, Agricultural Foreign Trade and Agricultural Exports
Arun Kumar Saxena Forest and Environment, Zoos and Climate Change
Dayashankar Mishra 'Dayalu' Ayush
Ajit Pal Food Safety and Drug Administration
Somendra Tomar Political Pension, Military Welfare and Provincial Guard Force

Minister Of State

Name Department
Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh Parliamentary Affairs, Medical Education, Medical and Health, Family Welfare and Mother and Child Welfare
Dinesh Khatik water power
Sanjeev Gond Social Welfare, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare
Baldev Singh Olakh Agriculture, Agricultural Education and Agricultural Research
Jaswant Singh Saini Parliamentary Affairs and Industrial Development
Ramkesh Nishad water power
Manohar Lal Mannu Kori Labour and Employment
Sanjay Singh Gangwar Sugarcane Development and Sugar Mills
Brijesh Singh Public works
K.P. Malik Forests, Environment, Zoos and Climate Change
Suresh Rahi prison
Pratibha Shukla Women Welfare, Child Development and Nutrition
Rakesh Rathore Guru Urban development, overall urban development, urban employment and poverty alleviation
Rajni Tiwari Higher education
Satish Chandra Sharma Food and Civil Supplies
Danish Azad Ansari Minority Welfare, Muslim Waqf and Haj
Vijay Laxmi Gautam Rural Development and Comprehensive Rural Development and Rural Engineering
Krishna Paswan Livestock and Dairy Development
Kailash Rajput Energy and surplus energy
Hansraj Vishwakarma Revenue
Surendra Diler Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

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