Cabinet Expansion Completed In Bihar; Know How Ministries Were Divided
Patna, 16th August 2022: The cabinet expansion for the newly formed Bihar government led by Nitish Kumar took place on Tuesday. A total of 31 ministers were administered the oath at the Raj Bhavan.
The portfolios have also been divided among the ministers.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will have a total of five ministries including the General Administration and Home Department. While Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav has been given four ministries including health and road construction.
The distribution of ministries are as follows:
1. Nitish Kumar (CM)
– General Administration
– Home
– Cabinet Secretariat
– Monitoring
– Election
2. Tejashwi Prasad Yadav Deputy Chief Minister
– Health
– Road Construction
– Urban Development and Housing
– Rural Works
3. Vijay Kumar Choudhary
– Finance
– Commercial Taxes
– Parliamentary Affairs
4. Bijendra Prasad Yadav
– Energy
– Planning and Development
5. Alok Kumar Mehta
– Revenue and Land Reforms
6. Tej Pratap Yadav
– Environment, Water and Climate Change
7. Afaq Alam
– Animal and Fishery Resources
6. Tej Pratap Yadav
– Environment, Water and Climate Change
7. Afaq Alam
– Animal and Fishery Resources
8. Ashok Choudhary
– Building Construction
9. Shravan Kumar
– Rural Development
10. Surendra Prasad Yadav
– Cooperative
11. Ramanand Yadav
– Mines and Ghosts
12. Leshi Singh
– Food and Consumer Protection
13. Madan Sahni
– Social Welfare
14. Kumar Sarvjeet
– Tourism
15. Lalit Kumar Yadav
– Public Health Engineering
16. Santosh Kumar Suman
– SC/ST Welfare
17. Sanjay Kumar Jha
– Water Resources
– Information and Public Relations
18. Sheela Kumari
– transportation
19. Sameer Kumar Mahaseth
– Industries
20. Chandra Shekhar
– Education
21. Sumit Kumar Singh
– Science and Technology
22. Sunil Kumar
– Prohibition, Products and Terms
23. Anita Devi
– Backward Varna and Most Backward Classes Welfare
24.Jitendra Kumar Rai
– Art, Culture and Youth
25. Jayant Raj
– Small Water Resources
26. Sudhakar Singh
– Agriculture
27. Mohammad Jama Khan
– Minority Welfare
28. Murari Prasad Gautam
– Panchayati Raj
29. Kartik Kumar
– Method
30. Shamim Ahmed
– Sugarcane Industry
31. Shahnawaz
– Disaster Management
32. Surendra Ram
– Labor Resources
33. Mohamed Israel Mansoori
– Information Technology
