Azad to look after all portfolios held by PDP ministers in J

Srinagar, Jun 30 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will hold additional charges of almost all portfolio, barring one, held by the nine ministers of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who resigned from the Ministry on June 28 on transfer of land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) issue.

Mr Azad has assigned additional charge of planning and finance department to the Revenue Minister B R Kundal.

An order issued to this effect issued today says that Mr Azad would hold the additional charge of Law and Parliamentary affairs, Tourism, Agriculture Production, Sericulture, Cooperatives, Fisheries, Public Health Engineering, Irrigation and Flood Control, Horticulture, School Education, Science and Technology, Haj and Auqaf, Forest, Environment and Ecology, Housing and Urban Development and any other Department not assigned to a Minister.

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