Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has kept 23 departments with him and these include home, industrial development (mining), justice, labour, excise, environment conservation and climate change, disaster management and rehabilitation and civil aviation.

Satpal Maharaj has been given 10 portfolios, including the public works department, Panchayati raj, rural construction, culture, tourism, water resources management, irrigation and minor irrigation.

Prem Chand Aggarwal will handle finance, urban development, legislative and parliamentary affairs, re-organisation and census.

Chandan Ram Das, a first-time minister, has got the charge of social welfare, minority welfare, road transport and micro, small and medium enterprises department.

Saurabh Bahuguna, another new face in Dhami’s cabinet, has been made minister of animal husbandry, milk development and fisheries, sugarcane development and sugar industry, protocol, skill development and employment.

Ganesh Joshi has been made minister of agriculture and farmers’ welfare, Sainik Kalyan and rural development.

Dhan Singh Rawat is in charge of school education –basic and secondary – Sanskrit education, co-operative, higher education, medical health and medical education.

Subodh Uniyal has been made minister of forest, language, election and technological education.

Rekha Arya has been given women empowerment and child development, food and civil supplies, consumer affairs, sports and youth welfare departments.

Meanwhile, Dhami has said that the state government is committed to make Uttarakhand the number one state in the country by 2025 and is also committed to fulfilling the promises and resolutions made to the people of the state.

Dhami’s cabinet was sworn in on March 23.