After a political shuffle in Bihar, the new NDA government has been formed in the state. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, along with Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, took the oath on Sunday, followed by the swearing-in of six ministers. The allocation of portfolios had been eagerly awaited, and it was finally announced on Saturday.
Notably, Nitish Kumar retains control of the Home Department, among others. Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Sinha have been assigned nine departments each. The official notification from the Cabinet Secretariat outlines the distribution of departments. Nitish Kumar personally oversees Home and General Administration, while also holding authority over unallocated departments, such as Cabinet Secretariat, Monitoring, Election, and others.
Here is the breakdown of departments for Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha:
Samrat Choudhary:
– Finance
– Commerce-Tax
– Urban Development and Housing
– Health
– Sports
– Panchayati Raj
– Industry
– Animal and Fishery Resources
– Law
Vijay Kumar Sinha:
– Agriculture
– Road Construction
– Revenue and Land Reforms
– Sugar Industry
– Mines and Geology
– Labor Resources
– Art, Culture, and Youth
– Minor Water Resources
– Public Health Engineering
Other ministers and their respective departments include:
– Bijendra Prasad Yadav:
– Energy
– Planning and Development
– Prohibition, Excise, and Registration
– Rural Work
– Minority Welfare
– Dr. Prem Kumar:
– Cooperation
– Backward Class and Extremely Backward Class Welfare
– Disaster Management
– Environment, Forest, and Climate Change
– Tourism
– Shrawan Kumar:
– Rural Development
– Social Welfare
– Food and Consumer Protection
– Santosh Kumar Suman:
– Information Technology
– Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Welfare
– Sumit Kumar Singh:
– Science, Technology, and Technical Education
The cabinet expansion is anticipated by February 12, with speculation about further distribution of portfolios among other NDA leaders. The control over the Home Department and General Administration remains with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
