Maharashtra cabinet: Devendra Fadnavis gets home; CM Eknath Shinde retains urban development

Mumbai (Maharashtra): After a recent political upheaval and with 18 new ministers taking oath in Maharashtra, the western state’s Chief Minister, Eknath Shinde, announced on Sunday the allocation of portfolios to the newly appointed state cabinet ministers, with Deputy Chief Minister Devendra bagging major roles and ministries. Shinde will look after general administration, urban development, Information and Public Relations, Public Works Department and several other major portfolios not allocated to other ministers. Fadnavis will hold the portfolios of Home, Finance and Planning, Law and Justice, Water Resources and Command Area Development, Housing, Energy, Protocol. Here’s the list of other ministers and the portfolios allocated to them: Senior BJP leader Chandrakant Patil was allotted higher and technical education, textile industry and parliamentary work Ravindra Chavhan was assigned ministry of Public Works (excluding Public Enterprises), Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Girish Mahajan is the chief of Village Development and Panchayati Raj development, Medical Education, Sports and Youth Welfare Suresh Khade will be leading the Labour department, Mangal Prabhat Lodha became the chief of Tourism, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Women and Child Development Radhakrishna Vikhe was entrusted with the portfolio of revenue department, animal husbandry and dairy development Sudhir Mungantiwar was assigned the department of forestry, cultural activities, and fisheries Vijaykumar Gavit will be handling Tribal development Atul Save was allocated with the department of Cooperation, other Backward and Bahujan Welfare Sandeepan Bhumre was assigned the department of employment guarantee scheme and Horticulture Uday Samant was given the Industries portfolio Tanaji Sawant was assigned Public Health and Welfare department Abdul Sattar will be handling Agriculture department Deepak Kesarkar was allotted with the department of school education and Marathi language Gulabrao Patil was assigned with water supply and sanitation Sanjay Rathod with Food and drugs administration All these portfolios allocated have been announced after approval by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari. Earlier, the expansion of the Maharashtra Cabinet took place on August 9 with a total of 18 MLAs -9 each from BJP and from the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction sworn in as ministers in a grand ceremony in Mumbai’s Raj Bhavan. Read all the Latest News , Trending News ,  Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.