13 new ministers take oath from President

KATHMANDU: President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Friday morning administered the oath of office and secrecy to 13 new ministers.

Inducting leaders from the Nepali Congress, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has expanded the coalition Cabinet.

The new ministers took the oath from the Head of the State amid a special function at the Sheetal Niwas today.

Dignitaries including Vice-President Nanda Bahadur Pun, PM Dahal, Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar, deputy prime ministers and ministers, political party leaders, chiefs of constitutional bodies, representatives of Kathmandu-based diplomatic missions and high level government officials were present on the occasion.

The new ministers sworn in today are:

  1. Arjun Narasingha KC, Minister for Urban Development

  2. Prakash Sharan Mahat, Minister for Foreign Affairs

  3. Bal Krishna Khand, Minister for Defence

  4. Keshav Kumar Budhathoki, Minister for General Administration

  5. Gagan Kumar Thapa, Minister for Health

  6. Shankar Bhandari, Minister for Forests and Soil Conservation

  7. Sita Devi Yadav, Minister for Peace and Reconstruction

  8. Hridaya Ram Thani, Minister for Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation

  9. Romi Gauchan Thakali, Minister for Commerce

  10. Deepak Giri, Minister for Irrigation

  11. Nabindra Raj Joshi, Minister for Industry

  12. Jeevan Bahadur Shahi, Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation

  13. Surya Man Gurung, Minister for Labour and Employment

Earlier, the party had sent Bimalendra Nidhi and Ramesh Lekhak to the Cabinet as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs and the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport respectively.

It has been learned that the ministers would assume their office today itself.

They were recommended for the ministerial berths by the party yesterday.

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Cabinet members after the expansion on Friday, August 26, 2016

S.N.

 Name

Portfolio

1.

Puspa Kamal Dahal

Water Supply and Sanitation; Livestock Development;

Women, Children and Social Welfare Development;

Science and Technology

2.

DPM Bimalendra Nidhi

Home Affairs

3.

DPM Krishna Bahadur Mahara

Finance

Ministers

4.

Arjun Narsingh KC

Urban Development

5.

Ramesh Lekhak

Physical Infrastructure and Transportation

6.

Janardan Sharma

Energy

7.

Prakash Sharan Mahat

Foreign Affairs

8.

Bal Krishna Khand

Defense

9.

Deepak Bohara

Supplies

10.

Suryaman Gurung

Labor and Employment

11.

Gauri Shankar Chaudhari

Agricultural Development

12.

Daljit Shrepaili

Youth and Sports

13.

Bikram Panday

Land Reform and Management

14.

Jayadev Joshi

Population and Environment

15.

Hitraj Panday

Federal Affairs and Local Development

16.

Surendra Kumar Karki

Information and Communication

17.

Dhaniram Paudel

Education

18.

Ajaya Shankar Nayak

Law, Justice, & Parliamentary Affairs

19.

Keshab Kumar Budhathoki

General Administration

20.

Romi Gauchan Thakali

Commerce

21.

Sitadevi Yadav

Peace and Reconstruction

22.

Jeevan Bahadur Shahi

Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation

23.

Deepak Giri

Irrigation

24.

Nabindra Raj Joshi

Industry

25.

Shankar Bhandari

Forest and Soil Conservation

26.

Gagan Kumar Thapa

Health

27.

Hridaya Ram Thani

Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation

State Ministers

28.

Shreprasad Jawegu

Federal Affairs and Local Development

29.

Satya Narayan Bhagat

Energy

30.

Radhika Tamang

Agricultural Development

31.

Dhana Maya BK

Without portfolio