Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Thursday distributed portfolios to his cabinet ministers.
Sangma has kept ten departments with himself. These include Cabinet affairs department, finance department, forests & environment department, home (political) department, planning department, mining & geology department, elections department, personnel & AR department, programme implementation & evaluation department, information technology and communication department & any portfolios not allotted to any other minister.
Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong was given home (police). He also got PWD (Roads) and parliamentary affairs department, public works department (building) and district council affairs department.
Deputy Chief Minister Sniawbhalang Dhar was also given urban affairs department, transport department, commerce & industries and department of prisons and correctional services that he held during the last cabinet
Alexander Laloo Hek was given animal husbandry and veterinary department, fisheries department, printing & stationery department & secretariat administration department while Dr Mazel Ampareen Lyngdoh was given charge of health & family welfare department, law department, information & public relations department & agriculture and farmers’ welfare department.
Pual Lyngdoh has been given social welfare department, tourism department, arts & culture department & textile department while his party colleague in the UDP Kyrmen Shylla retained the excise department, revenue & disaster management department held in the last cabinet while also getting legal metrology department & home (passport) department.
Abu Taher has been given power department, community & rural development department & taxation department while his party colleagues – Marcuise N Marak was given public health engineering department, housing department & soil & water conservation department, Rakkam A Sangma Rakkam A Sangma to hold charge of education department, general administration department, border areas development department and Comingone Ymbon was given food civil supplies & consumers affairs department, water resources department, home (civil defense and home guards) department & cooperation department.
Meanwhile, the youngest minister in the cabinet Shakhliar Warjri will be looking after sports & youth affairs department & labour department, registration & stamps department.