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Bengal Cabinet Portfolios Announced 10 Days After Oath
The Bengal government has officially announced the allocation of portfolios to 35 newly inducted ministers, ten days after they took oath. With this announcement, the first phase of cabinet expansion has been completed.
 
Cabinet Ministers
1. Suvendu Adhikari – Chief Minister; Home & Hill Affairs, Land & Land Reforms, Refugee Relief & Rehabilitation, Power, Information & Culture, Personnel & Administrative Reforms.
2. Nisith Pramanik – North Bengal Development and Water Resources Investigation & Development.
3. Ashok Kirtania – Food & Supplies and Cooperation.
4. Dilip Ghosh – Panchayat & Rural Development and Agricultural Marketing.
5. Khudiram Tudu – Tribal Development, Minority Affairs and Madrasa Education.
6. Agnimitra Paul – Urban Development & Municipal Affairs.
7. Deepak Barman – School Education, Housing, MSME & Textiles.
8. Tapas Roy – Industry, Commerce & Enterprise, Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction.
9. Dr Shankar Ghosh – Parliamentary Affairs and Tourism.
10. Manoj Kumar Oraon – Forest & Environment.
11. Arjun Singh – Labour and Transport.
12. Gauri Shankar Ghosh – Backward Classes Welfare and Mass Education Extension & Library Services.
13. Jagannath Chattopadhyay – Higher Education, Technical Education, Training & Skill Development.
14. Swapan Dasgupta – Finance.
15. Dr Kalyan Chakraborty – IT & Electronics, Science & Technology, Biotechnology and Food Processing.
16. Dr Sharadwat Mukherjee – Health & Family Welfare.
17. Arup Kumar Das – Irrigation & Waterways.
18. Dr Ajay Kumar Poddar – Public Health Engineering and Public Works Department.
19. Doodh Kumar Mondal – Agriculture.
 
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
1. Malati Rava Roy – Women & Child Development and Social Welfare.
2. Rajesh Mahata – Animal Resources Development and Fisheries.
3. Dr Indranil Khan – Youth Affairs & Sports, Consumer Affairs.
 
Ministers of State
Joel Murmu, Anandamay Barman, Ashok Dinda, Nadiyar Chand Bauri, Bishal Lama, Shantanu Pramanik, Moumita Biswas Mishra, Umesh Roy, Purnima Chakraborty, Kaushik Choudhury, Dr Hare Krishna Bera, Bhaskar Bhattacharya, Dibakar Gharami, Amiya Kisku, Kalita Maji, Gargi Das Ghosh, Advocate Biraj Biswas, Dipankar Jana and Sumana Sarkar have also been assigned various departmental responsibilities.
 
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