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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday announced allocation of portfolios for his 47-member Council of Ministers. The CM kept Home Ministry for himself. Deputy CM KP Maurya got Public Works Department (PWD), Food Processing, Entertainment Tax and Public Enterprises departments. Also, Dinesh Sharma has been allocated Higher and Secondary Education, Science and Technology, Electronics and IT departments, reports news agency PTI.
Here is CM Yogi Adityanath’s list of cabinet ministers and their respective portfolios:
Yogi Adityanath (CM): Home Ministry, Information, Housing and Urban planning, Food and Civil Supplies, Mining, Personnel, Institutional Finance, Estate
KP Maurya (Deputy CM): Public Works Department (PWD), Food Processing, Entertainment Tax and Public Enterprises
Dinesh Sharma (Deputy CM): Higher and Secondary Education, Science and Technology, Electronics and IT
Rajesh Aggarwal: Finance Ministry
Rita Bahuguna Joshi: Child Development Ministry
Surya Pratap Shahi: Agriculture Ministry
Chetan Chauhan: Sports and Youth Development
Mohsin Raza: Minority Affairs, Science and Electronics
Shrikant Sharma: Power Ministry
Swati Singh: Women Development Ministry, NRI, Flood Control and Agriculture Export
Suresh Khanna: Parliamentary Affairs Ministry
Sidhharth Nath Singh: Health Ministry
Swami Prasad Maurya: Cooperative Development
Jai Prakash Singh: Excise
Suresh Rana: Sugarcane Development and Sugar Mills
Satish Mahana: Industrial development
Dara Singh Chauhan: Forest and Environment, Zoological Gardens
SP Singh Baghel: Fisheries, Minor Irrigation, Animal Husbandry
Satyadev Pachauri: Khadi Gramodyog, Silk, Export Promotion
Om Prakash Rajbhar: Backward Castes and Handicap Welfare
Brijesh Pathak: Law and Justice, Political Pension, Renewable Energy
Lakshmi Narain Chowdhury: Milk Development, Religious Endowment Culture, Minority Welfare
Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi: Stamp and Court Fees, Registration and Civil Aviation
Yogi Adityanath was sworn-in as UP Chief Minister on Monday at a ceremony in Lucknow’s Smriti Upvan. The decision to appoint him as the leader of legislature party was taken unanimously by BJP MLAs at a close-door meeting on Saturday which was also attended by Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu.
On Wednesday, Adityanath also directed the government officials to abstain from chewing pan masala and gutkha during the office hours. Meanwhile, he has iterated that he will work towards taking forward PM Narendra Modi’s mission of ‘sabka sath, sabka vikas’ ensuring inclusive development for all.
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