MINISTRY ALLOCATIONS OF KARNATAKA CABINET , FINANCE TO SIDDARAMAIAH, HOME GOES TO PAREMESWARA

On the advice of CM Siddaramaiah, ministry allocations of 34 departments for the state of Karnataka has been done by Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot.

    Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Finance, Cabinet Affairs, and Information among others while Deputy CM DK Shivakumar has been allotted Major and Medium Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development. Department of Home has been allotted to Dr. G Parameshwara, though Intelligence will be handled by Siddaramaiah.

    MB Patil is the new Large and Medium Industries minister, while KJ Geroge has been given the Energy department portfolio.

     HK Patil has been allocated Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Legislation and Tourism, while KH Muniyappa -- a former Union minister for whom this is the first stint in the State Cabinet -- is the new Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs minister.

Ramalinga Reddy has been made the Minister for Transport and Muzrai.

Dinesh Gundu Rao is the Health and Family Welfare minister, while HC Mahadevappa has been given charge of Social Welfare. Public Works has been allocated to Satish Jarakiholi and Revenue to Krishna Byregowda.

Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge's son Priyank Kharge is the new Rural Development and Panchayati Raj minister, and Shivanand Patil has been given Textiles, Sugarcane Development and the Directorate of Sugar, Agricultural Marketing from the Cooperation department.

BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan will take charge of Housing, Wakf and Minority Welfare, while Sharanabasappa Darshanapur has been allocated Small Scale Industries and Public Enterprises. Forest, Ecology and Environment has gone to Eshwar Khandre, Agriculture to N Cheluvarayaswamy, Mines and Geology, Horticulture to SS Mallikarjun, Municipal Administration and Haj to Rahim Khan, and Labour to Santhosh S Lad.

    Laxmi R Hebbalkar, the lone woman in the Cabinet, will take charge of the Women and Child Development and the Disabled and Senior Citizens Empowerment portfolios and Sharanaprakash Rudrappa Patil has been allocated the Medical Education and Skill Development portfolio.

Other ministers and their departments include RB Timmapur (Excise), K Venkatesh (Animal Husbandry and Sericulture), Shivaraj Tangadagi (Backward Class, Kannada and Culture), D Sudhakar (Planning and Statistics), B Nagendra (Youth Services, Sports and ST Welfare), KN Rajanna (Co-operation), Suresha BS (Urban Development and Town Planning), and Mankal Vaidya (Fisheries and Ports, Inland Transport).

Madhu Bangarappa will take over the Primary and Secondary Education portfolio, MC Sudhakar will take charge of Higher Education, and NS Boseraju has been allocated Minor Irrigation, Science and Technology.