Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday distributed the portfolios of her 44-member cabinet keeping Home, Hill Affairs, Personnel and Administration, health and family affairs, land and land reform, refugee and rehabilitation,
Information and Cultural Affairs and North Bengal Development.
Earlier in the day 42 legislators and Amit Mitra, who did not contest the poll, took oath, which was administered by Governor Jagdeep Dhankar at Raj Bhawan at a brief and simple ceremony under covid protocol.
‘Those who did not get a place in the cabinet will be placed at the head of the committee,” said Ms Banerjee.
TMC MLA Tapas Roy is the Deputy Chief Whip of the Legislative Assembly. and Ashish Banerjee is the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
Party senior leader Biman Banrjee was already elected as the Speaker.
Ms Banerjee, who had declared that fighting Covid -19 is her top priority, today announced
“free vaccine to everyone in the state.”
“I will give 10 million vaccines to private hospitals,” she said. ” I will vaccinate everyone in
the state free of cost.”
She said strict rules to be followed like virtual lockdown.
” We need strict rules like lockdown, not lockdown at all,” the chief minister said.
, ‘GST should not be taken when it comes to building infrastructure. If 75 per cent of the
vaccines go out of the country, they will have to be brought from other countries. The center
will decide where the vaccine will be brought from. This requires a clear policy,” opined
Ms Banerjee.
She also appealed for financial help at this time of crisis to rescue the common people in
the time of pandemic.
” This year’s poll is the mandate for development, harmony, brotherhood,” maintained
Ms Banerjee.
Cabinet Ministers Partha Chatterjee: Minister for Industry, Commerce, Information
Technology and Parliamentary Affairs, Subrata Mukherhee : Minister for Panchayat and
Rural Development and Industrial Restructuring.
Amit Mitra Finance, Planning and Statistics Minister for Small and Medium Industries
and Textiles
Chandranath Sinha: Livestock Development
Swapan Debnath: Minister for Mass Education and Library
Disaster Management and Civil Defense Minister Javed Ahmed Khan
Minister of Mass Education and Library Siddiqullah Chowdhury
Agriculture Marketing Minister Biplob Mitra
Public Health and Technical Minister Pulak Roy
Food and Public Distribution Minister Rathin Ghosh
Minister for Minority Development and Madrasa Education Mohammad Golam
Rabbani
Cooperative Minister Arup Roy
Prison Minister Ujjwal Biswas
Law Minister Malay Ghatak
Irrigation and Waterways Minister Soumen Kumar Mohapatra
Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare Shashi Panja
Sundarbans Development Minister Bankimchandra Hazra
Agriculture Minister Shobhandev Chatterjee
Minister for School Education and Higher Education Bratya Basu
Transport and Housing Minister Firhad Hakim
Minister for Energy, Sports and Youth Welfare Arup Biswas
Forest and Unconventional Energy Minister Jyotipriya Mallick
Consumer Affairs, self-reliance and self-employment department Sadhan Pandey
Water Resources Development Minister Manas Bhuiyan
UNI