Karnataka portfolios: Siddaramaiah keeps Finance, Shivakumar gets Irrigation, Bengaluru development

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Two days after the Cabinet expansion exercise, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on May 29 allocatedportfoliosto all ministers and kept for himself importantportfoliosof Finance, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Intelligence, IT/BT, Infrastructure Development and Information...

Shivakumar has been assigned major portfolios of Major and Medium Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development, including Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), and other civic agencies in the Bengaluru City..

Both portfolios would get a huge amount of allocation in the State budget...

The senior ministers have been allotted major portfolios which involve implementation of five guarantees announced by the government...

Eight-time MLA and Minister Ramalinga Reddy received Transport, which is again a major portfolio given the governments promise to provide free bus travel for women across Karnataka..

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