Buddhadev Bhattacharya was sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal in the fifth Left Front government along with other 45 ministers on 5 November 2000.
List of Ministers Members of the Left Front Ministry in the Indian state of West Bengal as in November 2000 were as follows: + Council of Ministers No. Name Portfolio Cabinet Ministers 1 Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Chief Minister – Home, Hill Affairs, Information and Cultural Affairs 2 Subhas Chakraborty Sports, Transport 3 Asim Dasgupta Finance, Development and Planning, Excise, Self Employment Generation Programme (Urban) 4 Mohammed Amin Employment Exchange, Minority Development and Welfare, Wakf and Urdu Academy and Haj 5 Dr. Surjya Kanta Mishra Land and Land Reforms, Panchayats and Rural Development 6 Kiranmay Nanda Fisheries 7 Satyaranjan Mahata Relief 8 Gautam Deb Housing, Public Health Engineering 9 Partha De Health and Family Welfare 10 Santi Ranjan Ghatak Labour 11 Abdur Razzak Molla Food Processing Industries, Horticulture, Sundarban Affairs 12 Kshiti Goswami Public Works 13 Kanti Biswas School Education, Madrasah Education, Refugee, Relief and Rehabilitation 14 Kalimuddin Shams Food and Supplies 15 Ashok Bhattacharya Urban Development, Municipal Affairs, Town and Country Planning, Hooghly River Bridge Commission 16 Anisur Rahman Animal Resources Development 17 Nanda Gopal Bhattacharjee Water Resources Investigation and Development 18 Mrinal Banerjee Power, Industrial Reconstruction, Public Undertakings, Science and Technology 19 Chhaya Bera Employees State Insurance, Employment Exchange, Self Employment Generation Programme (Rural) 20 Birendra Kumar Moitra Agricultural Marketing 21 Bhakti Bhusan Mandal Co-operation 22 Dinesh Chandra Dakua Backward Classes Welfare 23 Pralay Talukdar Cottage and Small Scale Industries 24 Prof. Prabodh Chandra Sinha Parliamentary Affairs 25 Biswanath Chowdhury Jails, Social Welfare 26 Debabrata Bandapadhyay Irrigation and Waterways 27 Manabendra Mukherjee Environment, Tourism, Youth Services 28 Naren Dey Agriculture, Consumer Affairs 29 Satya Sadhan Chakraborty Higher Education 30 Bidyut Ganguly Commerce and Industries 31 Dr. Sankar Sen Power, Science and Technology 32 Jogesh Chandra Barman Forests 33 Nisith Adhikary Judicial, Law Ministers of State 1 Manohar Tirkey Public Works 2 Upen Kisku Backward Classes Welfare 3 Kamalendu Sanyal Land and Land Reforms, Panchayats and Rural Development 4 Bilasi Bala Sahis Forests 5 Srikumar Mukherjee Civil Defence 6 Pratim Chatterjee Fire Services 7 Nimai Mal Library Services 8 Susanta Ghosh Transport 9 Dhiren Sen Excise 10 Ganesh Chandra Mondal Irrigation and Waterways 11 Maheswar Murmu Special Tribal Areas Development including Jhargram Affairs 12 Anju Kar Mass Education Extension 13 Minati Ghosh Health and Family Welfare
See also Second Bhattacharjee ministry Left Front (West Bengal)
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