Siddaramaiah Cabinet: CM retains Finance, Industries & Energy portfolios

Siddaramaiah Cabinet: CM retains Finance, Industries & Energy portfolios

Mangalore Today/DHNS

Bangalore, May 19, 2013 :  Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday evening allocated portfolios to 28 ministers but kept 11 key departm­e­n­ts, including finance, energy, major and medium ind­u­s­t­r­ies, mines and geology, Bangalore City, IT and BT besi­d­es Intelligence wing, with him.

A gazette notification regarding the portfolio allocation was issued on Sunday evening by the governor’s office. Of the total 34 ministerial berths, five have been kept vacant.

 

Though Siddaramaiah was all set to allocate portfolios on Saturday itself, he could not do so because many seniors, especially old timers in the party, opposed the “light weight” portfolios offered to them. A day after, he budged a bit by giving additional portfolios to aggrieved ministers.

Siddaramaiah also kept four of his close associates in good humour by giving them key portfolios. While V Srinivas Prasad has been given revenue, H C Mahadevappa has been made public works minister, H S Mahadev Prasad has got co-operation and Satish Jarakiholi has been given excise. R V Deshpande has been given portfolios of Higher Education and Tourism, according to an official notification.

T B Jayachandra would be the Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister. He would also look after Animal Husbandry department. H K Patil has been given Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department

U T Khadar gets Health and Family Welfare portfolio. Ramanath Rai will be the Forest and Environment minister. Abhayachandra Jain will be Youth Services and Fisheries minister with independent charge. Vinay Kumar Sorake gets Urban Development.

Ramalinga Reddy has got Transport.Former Union Ministers V Srinivasa Prasad and M H Ambareesh would be the new Revenue and Housing Ministers respectively.

 

28 Ministers - 20 of Cabinet rank and eight Ministers of State  were sworn in yesterday in the cabinet expansion effected by the Chief Minister.



Ministerial Portfolios are as follows:

 

R V Deshpande: Higher Education, Tourism.

Qamar Ul Islam: Municipal Administration, Public Enterprises, Minorities Welfare, Haj & Wakf.

T B Jayanchandra: Law, Justice & Human Rights, Parliamentary Affairs & Legislation, Animal Husbandry

Ramanath Rai: Forest, Ecology and Environment .

H K Patil: Rural Development & Panchayat Raj

Ramalinga Reddy: Transport

Shamanoor Shivashankarappa : Agricultural Marketing, Horticulture

V Srinivasa Prasad : Revenue

H C Mahadevappa : PWD

K J George: Home (excluding Intelligence Wing)

H S Mahadevaprasad : Co-operation

M H Ambareesh: Housing

Prakash Hukkeri : Small Scale Industries, Muzrai, Sugar

Vinay Kumar Sorake : Urban Development

M B Patil : Major & Medium Irrigation

Satish Jarkiholi : Excise

UTKhader : Health & Family Welfare

Baburao Chinchanasoor: Textiles, Ports and Inland Transport

Shivaraj Tangadagi : Minor Irrigation

H Anjaneya: Social Welfare, Backward Classes Welfare Minister of State (Independent Charge)

K Abhayachandra: Youth Services, Fisheries

Dinesh Gundu Rao : Food and Civil Supplies

Krishna Byre Gowda : Agriculture

Dr Sharanaprakash Patil : Medical Education

Santosh Lad  : Infrastructure Department , Information Department

Kimmane Ratnakar : Medical Education

Umashree : Women & Child Development, Kannada & Culture

P T Parameshwara Naik: Labour