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West Bengal govt distributes portfolios among newly sworn ministers

Newly sworn-in West Bengal ministers were allocated portfolios on Wednesday, with Swapan Dasgupta given charge of the finance department and Tapas Roy named industries minister. The portfolios were distributed among 13 Cabinet ministers and 22 ministers of state, including three with independent charge. BJP MLA from Bidhannagar, Sharadwat Mukherjee, was named health minister, Dudh Kumar Mondal got the charge of the agriculture department, journalist-turned-politician Jagannath Chattopadhyay was appointed to the higher education minister, and Dipak Barman was awarded the school education department. Siliguri MLA Shankar Ghosh has been named tourism and parliamentary affairs minister, while Arjun Singh has been given the responsibility of labour and transport departments. Among the ministers of state with independent charge, Indranil Khan has been awarded the sports and youth, and consumer affairs portfolios, while Malati Rava Roy got the charge of the women and child development ...

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