Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee effected a minor reallocation in her cupboard, giving Chandrima Bhattacharya impartial cost of the finance division with the rank of minister of state, an official mentioned.
Firhad Hakim, the state’s transport minister, was additionally given cost of the division of housing and concrete affairs as nicely.
Hakim who was once Housing minister in Banerjee’s cupboard for a decade until the final meeting election had not been given this portfolio, thought of vital within the state, when the cupboard was re-formed final 12 months.
Bhattacharya has been in-charge of the city improvement division and was additionally minister of state for finance since Mamata Banerjee authorities took oath final Could for the third time within the state. Banerjee had taken on the mantle of finance minister then and shall be passing it on to Bhattacharya, a detailed aide now.
The announcement made on Worldwide Girls’s Day was not with out significance, mentioned political observers.
Final 12 months the BJP-led authorities in Assam too had appointed a girl, Ajantha Neog, because the state’s first girl finance minister. The union authorities has until now had two ladies occupying the place of finance minister. The primary was Indira Gandhi who took over the ministry from July 1969 to June 1970 throughout which she effected the nationalisation of 14 of the nation’s largest banks. After her, Nirmala Sitharaman turned the following girl to be finance minister of India, taking up the job in Could 2019.
In Bengal, Former finance minister and economist Amit Mitra, thought of the brains behind the state’s excise insurance policies which have seen a buoyant tax earnings primarily on account of rising revenues from liquor gross sales, stays principal chief advisor on finance and economic system with rank of Cupboard Minister.
Hakim thanked Banerjee for reinstating him as city and municipal affairs minister and promised to hold out his duties diligently. “When Sovan (Chatterjee) left (the occasion) my chief (Mamata Banerjee) made me the town mayor and I carried out my duties. I’m a trusted member of TMC. I’ll strive my finest and perform my duties. I thank my chief for having religion in me,” Hakim informed PTI when contacted.
Bhattacharya described her elevation as minister with impartial cost because the “finest present” to ladies of the state on Girls’s Day from the chief minister. “I’m a trusted soldier of Mamata Banerjee and can perform the tasks entrusted to me until my final breath,” she mentioned. Bhattacharya additionally retains cost of well being and household welfare in addition to division of land and land reforms as additionally refugee reduction and rehabilitation. She can also be taking care of the division of planning and statistics and likewise after division of programme monitoring.
The checklist which was despatched to Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar for his approval on Monday, was cleared right now by Raj Bhavan.