Bihar Cabinet Expansion Today 2022: Portfolio Allotted: A total of 31 members including Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav's elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav took oath as Ministers on Tuesday. Among the ministers who took oath, 16 were from RJD, 11 from Nitish Kumar's JD(U), two from the Congress, one from Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and an Independent MLA. 

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Soon after the Cabinet expansion exercise, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar distributed the portfolios of different ministers. 
 

Bihar Cabinet portfolio allocation: Full list of Ministers

1. Nitish Kumar – Home, General Administration, Cabinet Secretariat, Vigilance, Election

2. Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav – Health, Road Construction, Urban Development, Housing and Rural Development.

3. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary - Finance, Commercial Tax and Parliamentary Affairs

4. Bijendra Yadav – Power, Planning and Development

5. Alok Mehta – Revenue & Land Reforms

6. Tej Pratap Yadav - Environment, Forest and Climate Change

7. Md. Afaque Alam - Animal Husbandry & Fisheries

8. Ashok Choudhary - Building Construction

9. Shravan Kumar - Rural Development

10. Surendra Prasad Yadav - Co-operative

11. Ramanand Yadav - Mines and Geology

12. Leshi Singh - Food & Consumer Protection Department

13. Madan Sahni - Social Welfare

14. Kumar Sarvajeet - Tourism

15. Lalit Kumar Yadav - Public Health & Engineering

16. Santosh Kumar Suman – Welfare (SC & ST)

17. Sanjay Kumar Jha - Water Resources and Information

18. Sheela Kumari - Transport

19. Samir Kumar Mahaseth - Industries

20. Chandrashekhar - Education

21. Sumit Kumar Singh - Science and Technology 

22. Sunil Kumar – Prohibition Excise & Registration Department

23. Anita Devi – Welfare (Backward & Economically Backward Classes)

24. Jitendra Kumar Rai - Art, Culture & Youth Affairs

25. Jayant Raj - Minor Water Resources

26. Sudhakar Singh - Agriculture

27. Mohd Zama Khan - Minority Welfare

28. Murari Prasad Gautam - Panchayati Raj

29. Kartikeya Singh - Law

30. Shamim Ahmed - Sugarcane

31. Shahnawaz - Disaster Management

32. Surendra Ram - Labour Resources

33. Md Israil Mansuri - Information Technology

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