Bhagat gets Industry, Transport

Dehra Dun: Banshidhar Bhagat, sworn-in as cabinet minister in Uttarakhand last week, was allocated key portfolios of Industry and Transport today. 
Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank also allotted departments of Industrial Development, Cooperatives, Protocol and Rural Engineering Services to him, an official spokesman said. Till now, the Chief Minister himself was holding these portfolios, he said. Bhagat was sworn-in as cabinet minister on January 22 raising the strength of the Nishank ministry to 12. Bhagat was the Forest and Transport minister in the previous B C Khanduri government. He could not find a ministerial berth when Nishank took over reins of the state last June. After the resignation of Bishan Singh Chufal as cabinet minister following his election to the post of BJP state unit chief, Bhagat managed to find a place in the ministry.