Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who recently shocked everyone by breaking his alliance with BJP, has expanded his cabinet on August 16. Kumar has inducted 30 ministers from the Grand Alliance.

All the ministers were sworn into the Bihar cabinet on Tuesday. Reports said Nitish Kumar has retained the home department and the Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav has been inducted in health, urban housing and development, road construction, and other rural works. Tejashwi’s elder brother Tej Pratap Yadav has been given the responsibility for the environment, forestry, and climate change.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will conduct a meeting with all the ministers at 4:30 pm today.

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Here’s the full list of 33 ministers and their departments:

• Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister: Home, cabinet secretariat, supervision, election, general administration
• Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, Deputy Chief Minister: Health, road construction, rural development, urban development and housing
• Vijay Kumar Chaudhary: Finance, trade tax, parliamentary work
• Bijendra Prasad Yadav: Energy, plan and development
• Aalok Kumar Mehta: Revenue and land reforms
• Tej Pratap Yadav: Environment, forestry and climate change
• Md Aafaq Aalam: Animal and fish resources
• Ashok Chaudhary: Constructions and buildings
• Shravan Kumar: Rural development
• Surendra Prasad Yadav: Cooperative
• Ramanand Yadav: Mines and Geology
• Leshi Singh: Fertilisers and consumer department
• Madan Sahani: Social welfare
• Kumar Sarvjeet: Tourism
• Lalit Kumar Yadav: Public health
• Sanjay Kumar Jha: Water conservation, Information and public relation
• Sheela Kumari: Transportation
• Sameer Kumar Mahaseth: Industry
• Chandra Shekhar: Education
• Sumit Kumar Singh: Science and technology
• Sunil Kumar: Prohibition excise and registration department
• Anit Devi: SC and ST Welfare Department
• Jitendra Kumar Rai: Art, Culture, and Youth Department
• Jayant Raj: Minor Water Resources Department
• Sudhakar Singh: Agriculture
• Md Jama Khan: Minority Welfare Department
• Murari Prasad Gautam: Panchayati Raj Department
• Kartik Kumar: Planning and Development Department
• Shamim Ahmad: Sugarcane Industries Department
• Shahnawaz: Disaster Management Department
• Surendra Ram: Labour Resources Department
• Md Israel Mansoori: Department of Information Technology

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