BJD supremo retains home, Niranjan Pujari gets finance

Bhubaneswar: Soon after the swearing-in ceremony, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik allocated administrative departments among his council of ministers.

While the CM retained the home, general administration and public grievance departments, Niranjan Pujari got the finance and excise departments.

Prafulla Kumar Mallik was allocated steel and mines and works department whereas Bikram Keshari Arukha has been given forest and environment and parliamentary affairs departments.

Tukuni Sahu, the lone woman minister in Mr  Patnaik’s council of ministers, was allotted women and child development and Mission Shakti departments.