Bagmati Province Government Reduces Ministries to Eight, Reallocates Portfolios

Makwanpur. The Bagmati Province Government has made public the new cabinet's work allocation after reducing the number of ministries from 14 to 8. The new work allocation of the Council of Ministers has been approved by Province Chief Deepak Prasad Devkota in accordance with Article 168(9) of the Constitution of Nepal, at the recommendation of Chief Minister Indra Bahadur Baniyan.

According to the new structure implemented from Shrawan 1, the province will have the Chief Minister and the Office of the Council of Ministers, along with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Law and Cooperatives, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning, Ministry of Water Supply, Energy and Irrigation, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forest and Environment, Ministry of Health and Social Development, and Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Labor and Transport.

Chief Minister Indra Bahadur Baniyan has kept the responsibility of the Chief Minister and the Office of the Council of Ministers with himself. Shivraj Adhikari has been given the responsibility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Law and Cooperatives. Prabhath Tamang has been given the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning, Krishna Kumar Tamang the Ministry of Water Supply, Energy and Irrigation, Dr. Dinesh Chandra Devkota the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development, Madhusudan Poudel the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forest and Environment, Kanchan Chandra Bade the Ministry of Health and Social Development, and Bindu Shrestha the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Labor and Transport.

In the new structure, Prabhath Tamang, Dr. Dinesh Chandra Devkota, and Krishna Kumar Tamang, who were handling the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning, Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development, and Ministry of Water Supply, Energy and Irrigation respectively, have continued their responsibilities.

6 Ministers Without Portfolio Immediately

With the reduction in the number of ministries, Kiran Thapa Magar, Urmila Nepal, Bharat Bahadur KC, Suresh Shrestha, Jayaram Thapa, and Binu Rayamajhi Paudel have been given the responsibility of ministers without portfolio. According to the government, they will perform additional responsibilities in the remaining administrative and policy-related work of the respective sectors until the Organization and Management (O&M) survey is completed.

According to the Chief Minister's Office, the ministers' responsibilities will be re-adjusted as needed after the process of ministry restructuring, employee adjustment, and secretary management is finalized.

The Province Government had decided to reduce the number of ministries in a cabinet meeting on Baishakh 22. That decision came into effect from the first day of the new financial year.