{"id":3151,"date":"2025-08-20T08:55:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefrontpage24.com\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:55:02","slug":"new-ministers-get-education-skill-development-and-tourism-portfolios-in-sai-cabinet-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefrontpage24.com\/?p=3151","title":{"rendered":"New Ministers Get Education, Skill Development and Tourism Portfolios in Sai Cabinet Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TFP Bureau, Raipur, August 20, 2025: Following the recent expansion of the Chhattisgarh cabinet, portfolios have been formally distributed among the 14-member council of ministers led by Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai. The three newly inducted ministers\u2014Gajendra Yadav, Guru Khuswant Saheb and Rajesh Agarwal\u2014have been entrusted with crucial portfolios covering education, skill development and tourism, marking their first responsibilities as cabinet members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newly Inducted Ministers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gajendra Yadav<\/strong> \u2013 School Education, Village Industries, Law and Legislative Affairs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guru Khuswant Saheb<\/strong> \u2013 Skill Development, Technical Education and Employment, Scheduled Caste Development<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rajesh Agarwal<\/strong> \u2013 Tourism, Culture, Religious Trusts and Endowments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai<\/strong> has retained key departments including <strong>General Administration, Mineral Resources, Energy, Public Relations, Water Resources, Aviation, Good Governance and Convergence, Electronics and Information Technology, Public Grievances and Redressal<\/strong>, along with other departments not allotted to any minister.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deputy Chief Minister Arun Sao<\/strong> will oversee <strong>Public Works, Public Health Engineering, Urban Administration and Development, Sports and Youth Welfare<\/strong>, while <strong>Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma<\/strong> has been given <strong>Home, Jail, Panchayat and Rural Development, Science and Technology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Other major allocations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ramvichar Netam<\/strong> \u2013 Tribal Development, Agriculture Development and Farmers Welfare, Biotechnology, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dayal Das Baghel<\/strong> \u2013 Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kedar Kashyap<\/strong> \u2013 Forest and Climate Change, Transport, Cooperation, Parliamentary Affairs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lakhan Lal Dewangan<\/strong> \u2013 Commerce and Industry, Public Enterprises, Commercial Tax (Excise), Labour<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shyam Bihari Jaiswal<\/strong> \u2013 Public Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education, Backward Classes and Minority Development, 20 Point Program Implementation<\/li>\n<li><strong>O.P. Choudhary<\/strong> \u2013 Finance, Commercial Tax (except Excise), Housing and Environment, Planning, Economics and Statistics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Laxmi Rajwade<\/strong> \u2013 Women and Child Development, Social Welfare<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tankaram Verma<\/strong> \u2013 Revenue and Disaster Management, Rehabilitation, Higher Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The inclusion of new faces in education, skills, and tourism portfolios indicates Chief Minister Sai\u2019s focus on expanding employment opportunities, strengthening youth engagement, and enhancing Chhattisgarh\u2019s cultural and tourism potential.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3153\" src=\"https:\/\/thefrontpage24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0a07f6ec-8722-44bb-a22e-0e6e358da1a2-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefrontpage24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0a07f6ec-8722-44bb-a22e-0e6e358da1a2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thefrontpage24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0a07f6ec-8722-44bb-a22e-0e6e358da1a2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/thefrontpage24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0a07f6ec-8722-44bb-a22e-0e6e358da1a2.jpeg 877w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gajendra Yadav to head School Education; Guru Khuswant Saheb gets Skill Development; Rajesh Agarwal takes charge of Tourism and Culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,244,118,117],"tags":[531],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-cg-mantralaya","category-chhattishgarh","category-state","tag-sai-cabinet-new-portfolios"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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