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Mamata Banerjee Cabinate List & portfolios

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be keeping major portfolios to herself, while allocating the rest to her new council of ministers.

After a late night meeting with her new cabinet on Friday, Banerjee decided to keep nine departments to herself-Home, Land and Land Reforms, Information and Cultural Affairs, Health and Family Welfare, Agriculture, Hill Affairs, Minority Affairs and Madrasa Education, Personnel and Administrative Reforms, and Power.

Banerjee took oath as the eleventh Chief Minister of West Bengal on Friday and gained control of Writers’ Buildings, the red-painted edifice of power in the heritage hub of Kolkata.

Following are her Council of Ministers:

Amit Mitra (TMC) – Finance and Excise

Malay Ghatak (TMC) – Law, Judicial

Rachpal Singh (TMC) – Tourism

Hiten Burman (TMC) – Forests

Goutam Deb (TMC) – North Bengal Development

Shankar Chakrabarty (TMC) – Non-conventional energy sources, Correctional Administration

Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay (TMC) – Technical Education and Training, Science and Technology, Bio-Technology

Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar (TMC) – Environment

Ujjwal Biswas (TMC) – Youth Services

Shyamaprasad Mukherjee (TMC) – Housing

Sukumar Hansda (TMC) – Paschimanchal Development Affairs

Soumen Mahapatra (TMC) – Water Resources Investigation and Development

Arup Roy (TMC) – Agriculture Marketing

Chandranath Sinha (TMC) – Panchayat and Rural Development

Subrata Saha Bakshi (TMC) – PwD, Transport

Partha Chatterjee (TMC) – Commerce and Industry, Public Enterprises, Information Technology, Industrial Reconstruction, Parliamentary Affairs

Manish Gupta (TMC) – Development and Planning

Subrata Mukherjee (TMC) – Public Health Engineering

Abdul Karim Chowdhury (TMC) – Mass Education Extension, Library Services

Sadhan Pande (TMC) – Consumer Affairs

Upen Biswas (TMC) – Backward Classes Welfare

Javed Khan (TMC) – Disaster Management, Fire and Emergency Services, Civil Defence

Rabindranath Bhattacharya (TMC) – School Education

Sabitri Mitra (TMC) – Women and Child Development, Social Welfare

Jyotipriya Mullick (TMC) – Food and Supplies

HA Safwi (TMC) – Cooperation, Inland Water transport

Bratya Basu (TMC) – Higher Education

Noor-e-Alam Chowdhury (TMC) – Animal Resources Development

Purnendu Bose (TMC) – Labour

Shantiram Mahato (TMC) – Self Help Group, Self-employment

Manas Bhuniya (Congress) – Irrigation and Waterways, Micro and Small scale enterprises, Textiles

Manjulkrishna Thakur (TMC) – Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation

Madan Mitra (TMC) – Sports

Shyamal Mandal (TMC) – Sunderbans Affairs

Abu Hena (Congress) – Fisheries, Food Processing industries, Horticulture

Speaker – Biman Banerjee

Deputy Speaker – Sonali Guha

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