Nitish allocates portfolios, keeps Home

Nitish Kumar allocated portfolios among his 25 ministers but kept Home to himself.

Bihar Chief Minister

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Nitish Kumar

on Saturday allocated portfolios among his 25 ministers keeping with himself Home, Personnel and Administrative Reforms and Cabinet Coordination.

Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi has been given the key finance portfolio apart from institutional finance, commercial taxes, animal husbandry and mines and geology, Kumar told reporters after a meeting of the state cabinet.

The Chief Minister will look after all departments which have not been allocated to his ministers.

Apart from the Deputy Chief Minister, portfolios were distributed among 14 other cabinet ministers and ten ministers of state with independent charge.