Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel assigns portfolios, keeps finances, mining

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel Thursday assigned portfolios to his Cabinet colleagues, keeping finance and mining with himself and giving the crucial home department to senior leader Tamradhwaj Sahu. The newly-appointed ministers, who took oath early this week, have been allocated portfolios, a government public relation officer here said. Besides finance and mining, Baghel, heading the first Congress government in Chhattisgarh in 15 years, will handle general administration department, energy, public relations, electronics and information technology portfolios along with the departments not allocated to any other minister, he said. Minister T S Singh Deo has been given key departments like panchayat and rural development, health & family welfare, medical education, planning, economics and statistics, 20- point programme and commercial taxes (GST). Similarly, Sahu will head important departments like home, public works department (PWD), jail, tourism, ...

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