Bagmati Cabinet expanded, five ministers added

KATHMANDU: Bagmati Province’s Cabinet has been expanded. 

Chief Minister Rajendra Prasad Pandey on Tuesday inducted five ministers and a minister of state. 

Basanta Prasad Manandhar, Ghanashyam Dahal, Basundhara Humagain, Bishal Khadka, Ratna Prasad Dhakal and Indra Maya are new Cabinet members. 

As per their portfolios, Dahal will serve as Minister for Labor, Employment and Transportation; Manandhar as Drinking Water, Energy and Irrigation and Humagain as Agriculture and Livestock Development. Similarly, Khadka has been given the ministerial role at Forest and Environment Ministry and Dhakal at Youth and Sports Ministry. Gurung is the minister of state at the Ministry of Agriculture. 

With this, the four-member Cabinet has now become ten-member big.