ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio USA

 

Kolkata, May 21 (IBNS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday held a series of meetings with her council of ministers and respective departments to get a first-hand knowledge of the state of affairs in the administration at secretariat Writers’ Buildings.

 

On her second day in office, Banerjee reached the secretariat at 12 noon and immediately called meetings with her departments. She also had a meeting with chief secretary Samar Ghosh.

 

“Don’t follow me everywhere, don’t click my pictures…let me work…I had lots to do,” she told media while entering her office with Mayor Sovan Chatterjee.

 

The newly-appointed ministers also formally took charge of their respective departments and held meetings with their respective secretaries.

 

Banerjee has kept major portfolios to herself, while allocating the rest to her new council of ministers.

 

After a late night meeting with her new cabinet on Friday, Banerjee decided to keep nine departments to herself-Home, Land and Land Reforms, Information and Cultural Affairs, Health and Family Welfare, Agriculture, Hill Affairs, Minority Affairs and Madrasa Education, Personnel and Administrative Reforms, and Power.

 

Banerjee took oath as the eleventh Chief Minister of West Bengal on Friday and gained control of Writers' Buildings, the red-painted edifice of power in the heritage hub of Kolkata.

 

Following are her Council of Ministers:

 

Amit Mitra (TMC) - Finance and Excise

 

Malay Ghatak (TMC) - Law, Judicial

 

Rachpal Singh (TMC) - Tourism

 

Hiten Burman (TMC) - Forests

 

Goutam Deb (TMC) - North Bengal Development

 

Shankar Chakrabarty (TMC) - Non-conventional energy sources, Correctional Administration

 

Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay (TMC) - Technical Education and Training, Science and Technology, Bio-Technology

 

Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar (TMC) - Environment

 

Ujjwal Biswas (TMC) - Youth Services

 

Shyamaprasad Mukherjee (TMC) - Housing

 

Sukumar Hansda (TMC) - Paschimanchal Development Affairs

 

Soumen Mahapatra (TMC) - Water Resources Investigation and Development

 

Arup Roy (TMC) - Agriculture Marketing

 

Chandranath Sinha (TMC) - Panchayat and Rural Development

 

Subrata Saha Bakshi (TMC) - PwD, Transport

 

Partha Chatterjee (TMC) - Commerce and Industry, Public Enterprises, Information Technology, Industrial Reconstruction, Parliamentary Affairs

 

Manish Gupta (TMC) - Development and Planning

 

Subrata Mukherjee (TMC) - Public Health Engineering

 

Abdul Karim Chowdhury (TMC) - Mass Education Extension, Library Services

 

Sadhan Pande (TMC) - Consumer Affairs

 

Upen Biswas (TMC) - Backward Classes Welfare

 

Javed Khan (TMC) - Disaster Management, Fire and Emergency Services, Civil Defence

 

Rabindranath Bhattacharya (TMC) - School Education

 

Sabitri Mitra (TMC) - Women and Child Development, Social Welfare

 

Jyotipriya Mullick (TMC) - Food and Supplies

 

HA Safwi (TMC) - Cooperation, Inland Water transport

 

Bratya Basu (TMC) - Higher Education

 

Noor-e-Alam Chowdhury (TMC) - Animal Resources Development

 

Purnendu Bose (TMC) - Labour

 

Shantiram Mahato (TMC) - Self Help Group, Self-employment

 

Manas Bhuniya (Congress) - Irrigation and Waterways, Micro and Small scale enterprises, Textiles

 

Manjulkrishna Thakur (TMC) - Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation

 

Madan Mitra (TMC) - Sports

 

Shyamal Mandal (TMC) - Sunderbans Affairs

 

Abu Hena (Congress) - Fisheries, Food Processing industries, Horticulture

 

Speaker - Biman Banerjee

 

Deputy Speaker - Sonali Guha