Nitish Kumar, the Janata Dal United president who took oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the fourth straight term yesterday, distributed the portfolios among his new council of ministers. The decision for portfolio distribution was taken on Tuesday during the meeting of the new cabinet ministers.
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Two Deputy Chief Minister-designates Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi were among those who were administered the oath of office on Monday.
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Check the full list of ministers and their departments here:
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Nitish Kumar - Chief Minister - Home, General Administration, Vigilance, and all other departments which are yet to be allocated any minister
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Tarkishore Prasad - Deputy CM - Finance, Commercial Taxes, Environment and Forest, IT, Disaster Management, Urban Development
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Renu Devi – Deputy CM - Panchayati Raj, Backward caste upliftment and EBC welfare, Industry
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Vijay Chaudhary: Rural Engineering Department, Ruler development department water resources, Information and broadcasting, Parliamentary affairs
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Amrendra Singh – BJP: Agriculture, Cooperative, Sugar cane
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Ram Preet Paswan – BJP: Public Health Engineering Department
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Jivesh Kumar – BJP: Tourism, Labour, Mines
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Ram Surat – BJP: Revenue, Law
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Ashok Chowdhary: Minority and Social Welfare Department, Building Construction Department
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Bijendra Yadav - JD(U): Energy, Prohibition, Planning, Food and consumer affairs
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Mewa Lal Choudhary - JD(U): Education, Transport
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Santosh Manjhi – HAM: Minor irrigation, SCST welfare
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Mukesh Sahni – VIP: Animal husbandry and fishery
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Mangal Pandey: Health, Road, Art and culture
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