West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will reshuffle the state cabinet today. While speaking to the media in Kolkata on Monday the Chief Minister said she has no plans to dissolve the cabinet and come up with a new one but confirmed that 4-5 new faces will be inducted in the council of ministers, reported news agency ANI.
Banerjee, during the media address pointed that several departments were currently functioning without any dedicated minister due to which the reshuffle was necessary.
The CM now holds charge of 11 departments, including the four held by Partha Chatterjee after he was suspended from the party for his alleged role in the SSC recruitment scam. Chatterjee was minister-in-charge of the departments of industry, commerce and enterprises, IT and electronics, parliamentary affairs and public enterprises, and industrial reconstruction.
"We have to reshuffle our Cabinet. But (I) do not have any plan to dissolve the Cabinet and come up with a new one. There are several departments which has no one at the helm. I alone cannot shoulder (the) responsibilities of all these departments," Banerjee was quoted as saying by ANI.
The Mamata Banerjee government also decided to carve out seven new districts out of the existing 23 districts by delimitation of their boundaries for better administration and development of the areas.
Sunderban, Ichhamati, Ranaghat, Bishnupur, Jangipur, Behrampur and Basirhat are recognised as seven new districts of the state.
"Earlier there were 23 districts in Bengal now it has been increased to 30. The 7 new districts include - Sunderban, Ichhemati, Ranaghat, Bishnupur, Jangipur, Behrampur and one more district will be named in Basirhat," said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, as reported by ANI.