Change in Council of Ministers in West Bengal, 2022

Government of West Bengal
Home and Hill Affairs Department
Co-ordination Branch
Nabanna, Howrah -711 102.

No. 533-Home (Cons.) dated the 3rd day of August, 2022

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the power conferred by clause (3) of article 166 of the Constitution of India, the Governor is pleased hereby to make the following amendments in this Department’s Notification No. 860-Home (Cons.) dated 10.05.2021, as amended from time to time, (hereinafter referred to as the said Notification):-

Amendment

In the Schedule of the said Notification, –

(1) For serial No. 1. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“1. Mamata Banerjee

Chief Minister and Minister in Charge, Home and Hill Affairs Department, Department of Personnel & Administrative Reforms, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Department of Land and Land Reforms and Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation, Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Department of Planning and Statistics and Department of Programme Monitoring”

(2) For serial No. 8. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“8. Manas Ranjan Bhunia

Minister in Charge, Department of Water Resources Investigation and Development and Department of Environment”

(3) For serial No. 10. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“10. Moloy Ghatak

Minister in Charge, Law Department, Judicial Department and Department of labour”

(4) For serial No. 11. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“11. Aroop Biswas

Minister in Charge, Department of Power and Department of Youth Services and Sports and Department of Housing”

(5) For serial No. 12. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“12. Ujjal Biswas

Minister in Charge, Department of Science and Technology and Bio-Technology”

(6) For serial No. 15. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“15. Firhad Hakim

Minister in Charge, Department of Urban Development and Municipal Affairs”

(7) For serial No. 17. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“17. Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay

Minister in Charge, Department of Agriculture and Department of Parliamentary Affairs”

(8) For serial No. 19. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“19. Pulak Roy

Minister in Charge, Department of Public Health Engineering and Public Works Department”

(9) For serial No. 20. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“20. Dr. Shashi Panja

Minister in Charge, Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare, Department of Industry, Commerce and Enterprises and Department of Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction”

(10) For serial No. 22. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“22. Biplab Mitra

Minister in Charge, Department of Consumer Affairs”

(11) For serial No. 26. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“26. Becharam Manna

Minister of State, Department of Agricultural Marketing (Independent Charge) and Department of Panchayats and Rural Development”

(12) For serial No. 29. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“29. Akhil Giri

Minister of State. Department of Correctional Administration (Independent Charge)”

(13) For serial No. 35. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“35. Indranil Sen

Minister of State, Technical Education, Training and Skill Development (Independent Charge) and Department of Information and Cultural Affairs”

(14) For serial No. 39. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“39. Srikant Mahato

Minister of State, Department of Consumer Affairs”

(15) For serial No. 41. and the entries relating thereto, substitute the following Serial No. and entries:-

“41. Birbaha Hansda

Minister of State, Department of Self-Help Group and Self Employment (Independent Charge) and Department of Forests”

(16) After serial No. 44. and the entries relating thereto, insert the following Serial No. and entries:-

“45. Babul Supriyo

Minister in Charge, Department of Information Technology and Electronics and Department of Tourism;

46. Snehasis Chakraborty

Minister in Charge, Transport Department;

47. Partha Bhowmick

Minister in Charge, Department of Irrigation and Waterways;

48. Udayan Guha

Minister in Charge, North Bengal Development Department;

49. Pradeep Majumdar

Minister in Charge, Department of Panchyats and Rural Development;

50. Biplab Roy Chowdhury

Minister of State, Department of Fisheries (Independent Charge);

51. Tajmul Hossain

Minister of State, Department of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Textiles;

52. Satyajit Barman

Minister of State, Department of School Education”.

By order of the Governor,
Sd/- Dr. H.K.Dwivedi
Chief Secretary to the Government of West Bengal