ALLOCATION OF MINISTERIES AND DEPARTMENT

ALLOCATION OF MINISTERIES AND DEPARTMENT

8-MAY-ENG 2

RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

PATNA--------------------------Following the cabinet expansion, Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary has allocated ministries and departments among all the ministers of the Bihar government. CM Samrat Choudhary has retained the Home Department under his own charge. Nishant Kumar, the son of former CM Nitish Kumar, has been assigned the Health Ministry upon becoming a minister for the first time. The portfolio of Vijay Kumar Sinha, who served as Deputy CM in the previous government, has been changed; Vijay Sinha has now been appointed as the Minister of Agriculture. In the previous cabinet, he held the responsibility for the Department of Revenue and Land Reforms. Former BJP State President Dilip Jaiswal will now serve as the Minister of Revenue and Land Reforms—a department he has previously managed.

In the Samrat administration, the first Deputy CM from the JD(U) quota, Vijay Kumar Choudhary, will retain responsibility for the Departments of Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs. The second Deputy CM, Bijendra Prasad Yadav, will continue to serve as the Minister of Finance and Commercial Taxes, although the Energy Department has been reassigned from him. Bullo Mandal, a first-time minister, has been appointed as the new Minister of Energy.

The portfolio of Sunil Kumar, a minister from the JD(U) quota, has been changed. The Education Department has been transferred to the BJP. Mithilesh Tiwari has been appointed as Bihar's new Minister of Education. In exchange, the JD(U) has received the Health Department, the charge of which has been entrusted to Nishant.

The portfolio of senior JD(U) minister Ashok Choudhary has also been changed. While he held the Department of Rural Works in the previous Nitish cabinet, he has now been appointed as the Minister of Food and Consumer Protection in the Samrat administration. Meanwhile, the responsibility for attracting investment to Bihar now rests on the shoulders of Shreyasi Singh, a young female minister from the BJP; Shreyasi has been appointed as Bihar's new Minister of Industries. •     Which Minister from Which Party Holds Which Portfolio in the Bihar Government: The Complete List

•           Samrat Choudhary, Chief Minister (BJP): Home Department, Cabinet Secretariat, Monitoring, Election, Civil Aviation, and all unallocated departments

•           Vijay Choudhary, Deputy CM (JD(U)): Water Resources, Parliamentary Affairs

•           Bijendra Yadav, Deputy CM (JD(U)): Finance and Commercial Taxes

•           Vijay Sinha, Minister (BJP): Agriculture Department

•           Ram Kripal Yadav, Minister (BJP): Cooperation Department

•           Nitish Mishra, Minister (BJP): Urban Development and Housing Department, Information Technology

•           Kedar Gupta, Minister (BJP): Tourism

•           Dilip Jaiswal, Minister (BJP): Revenue and Land Reforms Department

•           Mithilesh Tiwari, Minister (BJP): Education Department

•           Rama Nishad, Minister (BJP): Welfare of Backward and Extremely Backward Classes, Mines and Geology Department

•           Pramod Chandravanshi, Minister (BJP): Art and Culture Department

•           Lakhendra Paswan, Minister (BJP): SC/ST Welfare Department

•           Sanjay Singh 'Tiger', Minister (BJP): Higher Education Department, Law Department

•           Kumar Shailendra, Minister (BJP): Road Construction Department

•           Nand Kishore Ram, Minister (BJP): Dairy, Fisheries, and Animal Resources Department

•           Ramchandra Prasad, Minister (BJP): Environment, Forest, and Climate Change

•           Arun Shankar Prasad, Minister (BJP): Labour Resources and Migrant Workers' Welfare; Youth, Employment, and Skill Development

•           Shreyasi Singh, Minister (BJP): Industries, Sports

•           Shravan Kumar, Minister (JD(U)): Rural Development, Information and Public Relations

•           Nishant Kumar, Minister (JD(U)): Health Department

•           Ashok Choudhary, Minister (JD(U)): Food and Consumer Protection Department

•           Leshi Singh, Minister (JD(U)): Building Construction Department

•           Madan Sahni, Minister (JD(U)): Prohibition, Excise, and Registration Department

•           Sunil Kumar, Minister (JD(U)): Rural Works Department

•           Jama Khan, Minister (JD(U)): Minority Welfare Department

•           Sheela Mandal, Minister (JD(U)): Science, Technology, and Technical Education Department

•           Ratnesh Sada, Minister (JD(U)) Disaster Management

•           Shri Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha, Minister (JD(U)) — Planning and Development Department

•           Damodar Rawat, Minister (JD(U)) — Transport Department

•           Shailesh-Bulo Mandal, Minister (JD(U)) — Energy Department

•           Shweta Gupta, Minister (JD(U)) — Social Welfare Department

•           Sanjay Paswan, Minister (LJP-R) — Sugarcane Industry Department

•           Sanjay Singh, Minister (LJP-R) — Public Health Engineering Department

•           Santosh Suman, Minister (HAM) — Minor Water Resources

•           Deepak Prakash, Minister (RLM) — Panchayati Raj