Assam CM announces major cabinet changes
Hindustan TimesAssam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday reshuffled portfolios of ministers in his three-and-a-half-year-old government and assigned departments to four new ministers who were inducted into the state’s cabinet two days ago. Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma will be in charge of home, personnel, public works buildings and national highways, public works roads, medical education and research and any other department not allotted to other ministers According to an official notification, Sarma will be in charge of home, personnel, public works buildings and national highways, public works roads, medical education and research and any other department not allotted to other ministers. Of the four new ministers inducted in the cabinet expansion on Saturday, Prasanta Phukan will helm power, skill, employment and entrepreneurship departments and assist the CM in medical education and research departments. Kaushik Rai will head food, public distribution and consumer affairs, mines and minerals and Barak Valley development departments while Rupesh Gowala has been allotted labour welfare, tea tribes and adivasi welfare departments, and he will assist the CM in home department.