Uttarakhand Cabinet News

The amended rules, examined by the Law Department, were discussed and finalised during the meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. 

Premchand Aggarwal has been allotted the Finance Ministry, while Satpal Maharaj got the Public Works Department (PWD) Chandan Ram Das, a first-time minister, has got the charge of social welfare, minority welfare, among others Another new face in Dhami's cabinet is Saurabh Bahuguna, who has been made minister of animal husbandry, milk development and fisheries and others

Pushkar Singh Dhami is one of the youngest Chief Ministers of current times Satpal Maharaj is the richest of all cabinet ministers with an asset worth Rs 87 cr CM Dhami has 5 members from the Garhwal region in his 2.0 cabinet

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Apart from some additions, the CM has not made any changes in the portfolios held by the ministers earlier. Pushkar Singh Dhami took oath as the 11th chief minister of Uttarakhand on Sunday. Along with Dhami, 11 BJP legislators also took oath as the state cabinet ministers at the ceremony.

Earlier on March 10, Chief Minister Rawat had been sworn in all alone. Barring the newly-appointed state BJP president Madan Kaushik, all other state ministers during former Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat's term have been made ministers in the new government.

Dushyant Gautam, in charge of Uttarakhand, said that the Cabinet expansion will take place soon The cabinet expansion is expected to take place on March 12 Assembly polls in Uttarakhand are scheduled to take place in 2022

The state Cabinet has also approved the sports policy which has been pending for years The much-awaited Sports Policy-2020, however, was referred to the Finance Department, which will give its concurrence for its implementation A total of 18 proposals came in for the cabinet discussion, and of these, 17 were also approved

The Uttarakhand Cabinet on Friday decided to convene a session of the Assembly on April 29, paving the way for Chief Minister Harish Rawat to go for a floor test as directed by the High Court.