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March 6, 2000
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Naveen Patnaik retains home, IT
Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has retained home, general administration, water resources, agriculture and information technology portfolios.
A twenty-five-member two-tier coalition government comprising 16 ministers from the Biju Janata Dal led by Patnaik and nine from the Bharatiya Janata Party was sworn in Bhubaneswar yesterday.
Patnaik has allocated school and mass education, health and family welfare, works, housing, parliamentary affairs, panchayati raj, finance, planning and co-ordination and forest and environment to ministers belonging to the BJD, while food supplies, urban development, revenue and law and industries have gone to the BJP.
Following is the list of ministers and their portfolios:
|
Chief Minister |
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| Naveen Patnaik |
home, general administration, water
resources, agriculture, information
technology.
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| Cabinet Ministers |
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| Anand Acharya | excise
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| Bed Prakash Agarwal |
food supplies and consumer welfare, public enterprises
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| Bhagabat Behera |
school and mass education
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| Dr Kamala Das | health and family welfare, women and
child development
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| Samir Dey |
urban development, public grievances and pension administration
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| Arabinda Dhali |
co-operation, textiles and handloom
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| Biswa Bhushan Harichandan | revenue, law, fisheries and animal
resources development.
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| Mangala Kissan | scheduled tribes and scheduled caste
development, minorities and backward
classes welfare
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| Nalini Kanta Mohanty | works, housing, parliamentary affairs
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| Surendranath Naik | panchayati raj
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| Ramkruishna Patnaik | finance, planning and coordination
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| Adwait Prasad Singh | forest and environment
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| Anang Udaya Singh Deo | steel and mines, energy
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| Kanak Vardhan Singhdeo | industries
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| Ministers of State (independent charge) |
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| Bimbadhar Kuanr | labour and employment
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| Duryodhan Majhi | information and public relations
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| Draupadi Murmu | commerce and transport
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| Bijoyshree Routray | tourism and culture
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| Prashant Nanda | rural development, higher education
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| Ranendra Pratap Swain | sports and youth services, science and
technology
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| Ministers of State |
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| Devi Prasad Mishra |
health and family welfare
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| Rabi Narayan Nanda |
food supplies and consumer welfare
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| Golak Naik |
planning and coordination
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| Amar Prasad Satpathy | agriculture |
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