Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday allocated portfolios to his 15 ministerial colleagues, who were sworn in along with him on Saturday, with senior Nationalist Congress Party leader and Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal, retaining the home ministry.
Apart from home and tourism, which Bhujbal held in the last Cabinet, he has now been entrusted with tourism, rural development, water supply and sanitation, energy, finance and planning, public health, horticulture, public works (public undertakings), food and civil supplies and consumer protection, state excise and food and drugs administration ministries, official sources said.
Padamsinh Patil of the NCP continues to hold the irrigation portfolio (excluding Krishna Valley and Konkan Irrigation Corporations).
Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil of the NCP would be in-charge of public works (excluding public undertakings), while his party colleague Madhukar Pichad has got the tribal development and special assistance ministry.
Dashrath Bhande of the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh will be in charge of animal husbandary, prohibition propaganda and mines.
Independent legislator Harshavardhan Patil will continue to head the marketing and employment guarantee scheme ministries.
The portfolios of nine ministers of state are as following:
Sulekha Kumbhare (RPI - Gavai) -- Water supply and sanitation.
Dada Jadhavrao (Janata Dal - Secular) -- Agriculture and ex-servicemen's welfare.
Dharamrao Atram (GGP) -- Tribal development.
Ramdas Bodkhe (BBM) -- Employment guarantee scheme.
Ajit Ghorpade (Independent) -- Irrigation (Krishna Valley and Konkan Irrigation Corporations).
Shivaji Kardile (Independent) -- Ports and fisheries.
Vinayakrao Jadhav (Independent) -- Horticulture, welfare of nomadic denotified tribes and other backward
classes and khar lands.
Sanjay Deshmukh (Independent) -- Mines, sports and youth welfare, special assistance.
Digambar Bagal (Independent) -- Social justice.
