Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal tonight allocated porfolios to his cabinet colleagues, giving finance to one of his close aides, retaining seven ministries to himself and giving charge of an equal number of departments to his son and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.
The departments which Badal kept with himself include Personnel, General Administration, Power, Cooperation, Science Technology and Environment, Vigilance and Employment Generation, an official release said here.
Sukhbir was allocated charge of Home, departments of Governance Reforms, Housing, Excise and Taxation, Investment Promotion, Sports and Youth Services Welfare and Civil Aviation, the release said.
Parminder Singh Dhindsa, son of Akali Dal General Secretaryand MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, will be Finance and Planning Minister.
Apart from it, he has also been allocated Institutional Finance and Banking and Programme plementation.
