Mumbai: The Maharashtra chief minister, Uddhav Thackeray, has completed his ministry formation with allocation of portfolios to the new ministers.
Here is the full list of ministers and their portfolios:
- Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena): Chief Minister, Administration, law and order
- Ajit Pawar (NCP): Deputy Chief Minister, Finance and planning
- Aaditya Thackeray (Shiv Sena): Tourism and Environment
- Ashok Chavan (Congress): Public Works Department (PWD)
- Subhash Desai (Shiv Sena): Industries and mining and Marathi language
- Chaggan Bhujbal (NCP): Food and civil supplies and consumer protection
- Dilip Walse Patil (NCP): Labour and Excise
- Anil Deshmukh (NCP): Home ministry
- Jayant Patil (NCP): Irrigation
- Nawab Malik (NCP): Minorities affairs
- Balasaheb Thorat (Congress): Revenue
- Rajendra Shingne (NCP): Medicine supplies
- Rajesh Tope (NCP): Public health and family welfare
- Hasaan Mushrif (NCP): Rural Development
- Dr. Nitin Raut (Congress): Energy
- Varsha Gaikwad (Congress): School education
- Jitendra Awhad (NCP): Housing
- Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena): Urban Development
- Sunil Keda (Congress): Animal Husbandry and dairy
- Vijay Waddetiwar (Congress): Other minorities
- Amit Deshmukh (Congress): Medical education and cultural affairs
- Uday Samant (Shiv Sena): Higher and technical education
- Dadaji Bhuse (Shiv Sena): Agriculture and ex-servicemen affairs
- Sanjay Rathod (Shiv Sena): Forest
- Gulabrao Patil (Shiv Sena): Water supply and sanitation
- KC Padvi (Congress): Adivasi affairs
- Balasaheb Patil (NCP): Cooperation department
- Sandipanrao Bhumre (Shiv Sena): Employment
- Anil Parab (Shiv Sena): Transport dept, assembly affairs
- Aslam Sheikh (Congress): Textile, fisheries and port development
- Yashomati Thakur (Congress): Women and child development
- Shankarrao Gadakh (Krantikari Shetkari Party): Water conservation and soil
- Dhananjay Munde (NCP): Social Affairs
The Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government had been facing criticism from the opposition BJP for delay in allocating portfolios despite being in power for over a month. Sources said the delay in finalisation and announcement of porfolios was mainly due to the difficulty of assigning districts to individual ministers for special care.
