Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik allocates portfolios, Keeps Home; Niranjan Pujari gets Finance

1. Naveen Patnaik: Home, General Administration and Public Grievance and any other Department specifically not assigned.

1. Niranjan Pujari : Finance, Excise,
2. Bikram Keshari Arukha : Forest and Environment, Parliament Affairs
3. Prafulla Kumar Mallik : Steel and Mines, Works
4. Ranendra Pratap Swain: Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare, Co-operation, Planning and Convergence, Commerce and Transport
5. Pratap Jena: Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water, Law, Housing and Urban Development
6. Arun Kumar Sahoo: Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment, Fisheries and Animal Resources Development, Higher Education
7. Susan Marndi: Revenue and Disaster Management
8. Susanta Singh: Rural Development, Labour and Employees’ State Insurance
9. Nana Kishore Das: Health and Family Welfare
10. Tukuni Sahu: Women and Child Development, and Mission Shakti

1. Jagannath Sarka: ST and SC Development, Minorities and Backward Classes Welfare
2. Divya Shankar Mishra: Energy, Industries, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
3. Ashok Chandra Panda: Science and Technology, Public Enterprise, Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disability
4. Samir Ranjan Das: School and Mass Education
5. Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi: Tourism, Odia Language, Culture and Literature
6. Premananda Nayak: Skill Development and Technical Education
7. Raghunandan Das: Water Resources, Information and Public Relations
8. Padmini Dian: Handlooms, Textiles and Handicrafts
9. Tusharkanti Behera- Electronics and Information Technology, Sports and Youth Services.

1. Prafulla Kumar Mallik: Home

Earlier in day, Biju Janata Party (BJD) President Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday took oath as the Chief Minister of Odisha for historic fifth term.

Apart from Chief Minister, Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal also administrated oath to Cabinet ministers. The new BJD governmment in the state will have 11 Cabinet Ministers and 9 Ministers of State.

Odisha can have a maximum of 21 cabinet ministers including CM Naveen Patnaik which is 15% of the strength of the assembly as prescribed by the Sarkaria Commission. Naveen Patnaik have inducted 10 new faces in his State Cabinet.

READ: Naveen Patnaik-led Odisha govt to induct 11 Cabinet Ministers, 9 Ministers of State; 10 new faces get chance

State Polls and national elections in the state held simultaneously.

BJD in the recently concluded state polls won 112 seats, 5 less than what they had won in 2014 State polls. While BJP won 23, Congress 9 and one each bag by CPI-M and Independent Candidate. Odisha has a total of 147 Assembly seats.

While in national polls, BJD won 12, BJP managed to make inroads in the state with its victory on 8 Lok Sabha Seats while Congress only won a single Lok Sabha Seat.

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