Punjab allocates portfolios to its ministers | Read in detail

Chandigarh, March 21: The AAP-led Punjab Government on Monday allocated portfolios to its ministers. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has kept the Home Ministry with him. Harpal Cheema has been made Finance Minister; Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer has been made Education Minister, Dr Vijay Singla has got Health Ministry; Harjot Bains will be the Law and Tourism Minister; Dr Baljit Kaur will be the Minister for Social Security, Women and Child Development. Also read | Eyeing national presence, AAP appoints office-bearers in nine states Harbhajan Singh will be Power Minister; Lal Chand look after Food and Civil Supplies Department. Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal will be the Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj. Laljit Singh Bhullar will be the Transport Minister; Bram Shankar Jimpa will have Water as well as Disaster Ministry. Earlier, after inducting the 10 ministers into his Cabinet, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had approved a proposal to fill 25,000 vacant posts in government departments, including 10,000 police posts. Bhagwant Mann, in a video message after the first meeting of the Cabinet, said the process of advertisement and notification for these jobs would be initiated within a month. Also read | Sonam Kapoor announces pregnancy, says can’t wait to welcome child The new ministers are  Harpal Singh Cheema (48), second-time AAP MLA from Dirba. Dr Baljit Kaur (46), an eye surgeon from Malout Harbhajan Singh, a former Excise and Taxation Officer Dr Vijay Singla (46), a dentist from Mansa Lal Chand Kataru Chak from Bhoa (47), a first-time MLA Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, a 32-year-old with a BTech degree Kuldip Singh Dhaliwal from Ajnala who lived in the US before he returned to agriculture in Punjab Laljit Singh Bhullar, a commission agent Pandit Brahm Shankar Jimpa, a four-time councillor from Hoshiarpur Harjot Singh Bains, practising lawyer at the Punjab and Haryana High Court -PTC News