By IANS,
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday announced a minor change in her ministry by assigning an additional portfolio of panchayat and rural development to Public Health Minister Subrata Mukherjee.
“Subrata Mukherjee has been given the additional charge of panchayat and rural development. He will also keep the public health engineering portfolio,” Banerjee told reporters.
The current panchayat and rural development minister, Chandra Nath Sinha has been shifted to the newly formed statistics and programme implementation department.
The reshuffle is seen as banerjee’s bid to speed up the work of the panchayat and rural development under the stewardship of Mukherjee, a seasoned administrator, as the crucial panchayat polls are slated to be held in 2013.