DK Shivakumar Retains BDA, BMRDA As Karnataka Government Allocates Portfolios
Shivakumar retains BDA and BMRDA after Karnataka portfolio allocation.
The Karnataka government on Wednesday allocated portfolios to newly inducted ministers and reshuffled responsibilities among several senior ministers, a day before the state Assembly’s Monsoon Session. The portfolio allocation was approved by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot after the list was forwarded by R. Prabhu Shankar, Special Secretary to the Governor, to Chief Secretary Shalini Rajneesh.
Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has retained several key departments, including Finance, Cabinet Affairs, the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Intelligence, Information, Law, Justice and Human Rights, Parliamentary Affairs and Legislation, and Agriculture Marketing. He will also continue to oversee the Commissionerate of Town and Country Planning, urban local bodies under the Bengaluru Development Authority and Bengaluru Metropolitan Region Development Authority, as well as all portfolios that remain unallocated.
The decision comes after Bengaluru Development Minister Krishna Byre Gowda had pressed for control of the BDA and BMRDA portfolios. Ramalinga Reddy, who had resisted taking charge of Water Resources while seeking Bengaluru Development, has instead been assigned Forest, Ecology and Environment. Reddy had also submitted his resignation to the Chief Minister during the dispute over portfolio allocation.
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Several other senior ministers have received revised responsibilities. B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan has been assigned Housing, while K.H. Muniyappa has been shifted from Food and Civil Supplies to Social Welfare. Lakshman Savadi has been given Cooperation, excluding Agriculture Marketing. Rudrappa Manappa Lamani will handle Sugar and Textiles, while Shivaraj Tangadagi has been assigned Backward Classes Welfare and Kannada and Culture.
U.T. Khader has retained Health and Family Welfare and will additionally handle Minority Welfare, Haj and Waqf. T. Raghu Murthy has been assigned ST Welfare, Ajay Singh will oversee Minor Irrigation and Science and Technology, and Cheluvarayaswamy will handle Major and Minor Irrigation. Madhu Bangarappa will continue with Primary and Secondary Education, while Basavaraj Raya Reddy has been given Higher Education and Shivalinge Gowda has been assigned Excise.
Other allocations include Animal Husbandry and Sericulture for Puttaranga Shetty, Small Scale Industries and Public Enterprises for Vijayananda Kashappanavar, and Labour and Employment for Santosh Lad. K.S. Basavanthappa will handle Muzrai, Fisheries, Ports and Inland Water Transport, while S.S. Mallikarjun will continue with Mines and Geology and Horticulture. Rizwan Arshad has been given Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Narendra Swamy Agriculture, H.C. Balakrishna Municipal Administration and B. Nagendra Planning and Statistics.
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