Didi rejigs team, changes depts of four ministers

KOLKATA: The West Bengal government on Wednesday reshuffled the cabinet by allocating additional departments to some ministers. While Babul Supriyo was given the IT, Public Enterprise & Industrial Reconstruction Department, Manas Ranjan Bhunia took over as the Irrigation Minister. Md Ghulam Rabbani got the Renewable & Non-Conventional Department and Chandrima Bhattacharya was handed over the Environment in addition to her Finance department.

According to sources, the state government was unable to make the reshuffle for quite a while as the file was lying at the Raj Bhavan. On July 18, the Mamata government sent a letter to the Governor regarding the rejig. Even on August 3, the state government sources claimed that no response was received from the Raj Bhavan.