Days after the Maharashtra cabinet expansion, portfolios have been allocated to ministers, with chief minister Eknath Shinde keeping the urban development ministry and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis getting the home, finance, water resources, housing and power departments.
Shinde, who expanded his two-member cabinet on August 9 by inducting 18 ministers, also kept the public works (public projects) and transport departments.
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Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led government inducted 18 ministers into his cabinet last week. After toppling Uddhav Thackeray’s government, the rebel Shiv Sena faction formed a new government in Maharashtra on 30 June with Shinde taking oath as the Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis as his deputy.
Maharashtra Cabinet: Who got what?
- Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will be handling Urban Development
- Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will handle home, finance, water resources, housing and power departments.
- Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil gets Revenue, Animal Husbandry & Dairy
- Sudhir Mungantiwar gets Forest, Cultural affairs & fisheries
- Chandrakant Patil gets Higher, technical education, textile industry & parliamentary work
- Shambhuraj Desai gets State Excise Duty
- Deepak Kesarkar is the new minister for school education
- Abdul Sattar has been given the agriculture portfolio.
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