Home for Acharya, Palemar gets Fisheries
Bangalore, Jun 8: At last Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Saturday allotted portfolios to his 30 ministerial colleagues, besides himself.
He has retained 10 departments under his purview including Fina-nce, Intelligence, Urban Development excluding BWSSB, Forest, Kannada & Culture, Department of Personnel & Adminis-trative Reforms.
The chief minister has allotted key portfolios to seniors: Home to Dr V S Acharya, Transport to R Ashok, Power to K S Eshwarappa and PWD to C M Udasi.
No minister for City
There is no separate minister for Bangalore City development. Barring the BWSSB, the entire urban development has come under the CM.
Given that Karnataka have 34 ministers, Yeddyurappa has three more vacancies in the Cabinet. But he is unlikely to part with Urban Development even after he expands the ministry in future.
However, Bangalore City MLA Katta Subramanya Naidu has been given IT, BT, BWSSB, besides Excise.
Naidu was offered Food and Civil Supplies. But he picked Excise, IT and BT and BWSSB.
When the notification approving the allocation was issued by Raj Bhavan, it was well past midnight on Saturday.
It is said that Eshwarappa was not happy with Power as he was keen on getting Home. However, the CM has appointed his trusted man Acharya as the home minister. Ashok has got what he wanted right from the beginning: Transport.
The final list has proved wrong the speculation that mining giants from Bellary would get Mines, Forest and Transport. The CM has kept Mines and Forest for himself, while Ashok has got Transport. First time MLA Karunakara Reddy has managed to get the plum portfolio of Revenue. His younger brother Janardhana Reddy has been made tourism & infrastructure development minister, while his associate B Sriramulu is health & family welfare minister.
Ministers & Portfolios
Ministers of the state
Arvind Limbavali Bachegowda K S Eishwarappa Govind Karjol
C M Udasi Karunakar Reddy Venkatramanappa Laxman Savadi
Krishna Palemar Shobha Karandlaje Sriramulu Vishweshwara Hegde
R Ashok S K Bellubbi Basavaraj Bommai Janardhan Reddy
Krishnaih Shetty Murugesh Nirani Revunayak Goolihatti Shekhar
Shivraj Tangadagi D Sudhakar Suresh Kumar Dr V S Acharya
B S Yeddyurappa: Cabinet Affairs, Finance, DPAR, Urban Development (excluding BWSSB), Intelligence, Kannada & Culture, Mines, Forest, Ecology & Environment and Public Enterprises
V S Acharya: Home
K S Eshwarappa: Power
C M Udasi: Public Works
Katta Subramanya Naidu: Excise, IT,BT, BWSSB, Information, Science & Technology
R Ashok: Transport
Murgesh Nirani: Large and Medium Scale Industries
S Suresh Kumar: Law & Parliamentary Affairs, Municipal Administration
Visveswara Hedge Kageri: Primary and secondary education
Ramachandra Gowda: Medical Education
Aravind Limbavali: Higher Education
S A Ravindranath: Agriculture
Janardhana Reddy: Tourism, Infrastructure Development
Karunakara Reddy: Revenue
Govind Karjol: Minor irrigation, Planning & Statistics B N Bachchegowda: Labour
Basavaraj Bommai: Major & Medium Irrigation
Shobha Karandlaje: Panchayat Raj & Rural development, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation
B Sriramulu: Health and Family Welfare
Mumtaz Ali Khan: Haj, Wakf, Minority Welfare
Revu Naik Belamagi: Animal Husbandry
Krishna Palemar: Fisheries, Sports & Small Savings and Lotteries
Venkataramanappa: Small Scale Industry & Sericultrure
Krishnaiah Shetty: Housing, Muzarai
Hartal Halappa: Food & Civil Supplies
Narendra Swamy: Women & Child Development
Lakshman Savadi: Co-operation
S K Bellubbi: Horticulture
Shivaraj Tangadagi: Agriculture Marketing & Sugar
D Sudhakar: Social Welfare
Goolihatti Shekhar: Youth Services & Textile
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