Kerala Cabinet Portfolio Announced: View Full List Of Ministers And Their Departments | Today’s news

Two days after assuming office, the new United Democratic Front (UDF) government in Kerala has completed allotment of portfolios to all its ministers.

Chief Minister VD Satheesan retained Finance, Law, General Administration and Ports. According to Lok Bhavan, Satheesan will serve 35 wards, including:

National Savings, Shop Purchase, Commercial Taxes, Agricultural Income Tax, State Treasuries, Lotteries, State Audit, Kerala State Financial Enterprises, State Insurance, Kerala Finance Corporation, Stamps and Stamp Duties, Ports, Law, Planning and Economic Affairs, General Administration, All India Services, Science, Technology, Pollution Control, Scientific Institutes, Personnel, Personnel and Administration Assistance, State Hospitality, Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice, Airports, Metro, Inter-State River Waters, Coastal shipping and inland navigation, Kerala State Inland Navigation Corporation, Information and Public Relations, Printing and Stationery, Minority Welfare, All Important Political Matters, Subjects Not Elsewhere.

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Former KPCC president Ramesh Chennithal was allotted Home and Vigilance departments along with Fire and Rescue Services, Prisons and Choir.

Sunny Joseph, president of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), has been deputed in the Ministry of Energy, Environment and Parliamentary Affairs.

Former KPCC president K Muraleedharan will be in charge of health, Devaswoms, medical education, medical university, tribal medicine, Ayush and drug control, food safety departments.

Other Congress Ministers

AP Anil Kumar – Land and Revenue, Survey and Land Records, Land Reforms Department.

PC Vishnunadh – Tourism, Culture, KSFDC, Chalachithra Academy, Cultural Activists Welfare Fund Board

Roji M John – Higher Education, Technical Education, Universities (Except Agriculture, Veterinary, Fisheries, Medical and Digital Universities), Entrance Examination, National Cadet Corps, ASAP

Bindhu Krishna – Labour, Milk Development and Dairy Co-operatives, Women and Child Welfare

M Liju – Cooperation and Excise

T Siddique – Agriculture, Soil Survey and Soil Conservation, Kerala Agricultural University, Warehousing Corporation

KA Thulasi – Welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward classes

OJ Janeesh – Sports, Youth Affairs, Zoo, Museum, Registration, Archaeology, Archives

IUML ministers

PK Kunhalikutty – Industry & Commerce, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Mining & Geology, Handlooms & Textiles

N Samsudheen – General Education, Literacy Movement, Hajj, Wakf and Minority Development

KM Shaji – Panchayath, Municipality, Corporation, Town Planning, Rural Development, Regional Development Authorities, KILA

PK Basheer – Public Works Department

VE Abdul Gafoor – Fisheries, Port Engineering, Social Justice

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Kerala Congress (Joseph)

Mons Joseph – Irrigation, CADA, Groundwater Department, Water Supply and Sanitation, Housing

RSP

Shibu Baby John – Forests, Conservation, Skills Development (KASE)

Anoop Jacob – Food & Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs, Legal Metrology

CMP

CP John – Transport, motor vehicles, water transport