Cabinet Ministers in Champai Soren government assume office6Photo© thehindu.com

Cabinet Ministers in Champai Soren government assume office

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A number of newly inducted Ministers in Jharkhand's Champai Soren-led alliance government assumed office on February 17. The CM had allocated portfolios to the Ministers on February 16.

With the exception of a few, most Ministers retained the portfolios they were assigned during the previous Hemant Soren government.

Senior Congress leader and Minister Alamgir Alam, who has been given the portfolio of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, and Rural Works Department, assumed office at the State Secretariat.