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The West Bengal government on Wednesday reshuffled the portfolios of four ministers, including three Cabinet-level ministers, following the approval of Governor C.V. Ananda Bose, a Home Department notification said.
These changes also saw some ministers given additional responsibilities over and above their current portfolios.
Senior Trinamool Congress leader Manas Bhunia has been given the charge of Irrigation and Waterways Department in addition to his existing Water Resources Investigation Department.
The Irrigation and Waterways portfolio was earlier held by Partha Bhowmick, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Barrackpore constituency.
Apart from Information Technology and Electronics, Babul Supriyo has also got the charge of the Department of Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction.
Mohammad Ghulam Rabbani, who was earlier handling the environment portfolio, will now be the minister for non-conventional energy sources department, a department previously held by Supriyo.
The Environment Department (Independent Charge) will now be with Minister of State Chandrima Bhattacharya, who already has independent charge of the Finance and Programme Monitoring departments.
Bhattacharya is also the Minister of State for the departments of Health and Family Welfare, Land and Land Reforms, Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation, and Planning and Statistics.
The notification did not mention who would be in charge of the correctional home department, which was vacated by Akhil Giri on Monday.
Sources at the state headquarters ‘Nabanna’ said that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will take charge of this department till the next notification.
Giri was accused of verbally abusing a forest department official, following which he resigned from the post of minister at the behest of his party Trinamool Congress.
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