Nitish allots three new portfolios to ministers

After creation of three new departments in Bihar, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday allocated new portfolios, keeping the crisis-hit Civil Aviation with himself, a notification from the cabinet secretariat department said.

- HT Correspondent

The Bihar cabinet on December 9 had approved proposals to create three new departments -- Youth, Employment and Skill Development Department, Higher Education Department and the Civil Aviation Department -- and changed the names of three other departments.

The Animal and Fisheries Resource Department was renamed as Dairy, Fisheries and Animal Resources Department; the Labour Resources Department as Labour Resources and Migrant Workers Welfare Department, and Art, Culture and Youth Department as Art and Culture Department.