Government of West Bengal

This article is about a state government of India. For the defunct provincial government of Pakistan, see Government of East Bengal.

The Government of West Bengal also known as the West Bengal Government, is the subnational government of the Indian state of West Bengal , created by the National Constitution as the state's legislative, executive and judicial authority.^[1] The State Governor acts as the head of state and is the highest nominal authority of the state power, however, it is the Chief Minister who is the chief executive authority and head of government.

Government of West Bengal
পশ্চিমবঙ্গ সরকার

Official emblem
Formation	26 January 1950; 73 years ago (1950-01-26)
Government type	State government
Seat of Government	Nabanna, Howrah
Country	India
Website	https://wb.gov.in/
Legislative branch
Assembly	West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Speaker	Biman Banerjee (TMC)
Deputy Speaker	Asish Banerjee (TMC)
Members in Assembly	294
Meeting place	Bidhan Sabha Bhavan, Kolkata
Executive branch
Governor	C. V. Ananda Bose
Chief Minister	Mamata Banerjee (TMC)
Chief Secretary	Hari Krishna Dwivedi, IAS
Appointer	President of India
Departments	54
Judiciary
High Court	Calcutta High Court
Chief Justice	Justice Prakash Shrivastava
Seat	B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata

The Chief Minister is the head of government and is vested with most of the executive powers. Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, houses the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. The temporary secretariat is located in the Nabanna building in the district of Howrah, adjacent to the state capital. The Calcutta High Court is located in Kolkata, which has jurisdiction over the whole of West Bengal and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The present Legislative Assembly of West Bengal is unicameral, consisting of 294 Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA)^[2] including one nominated from the Anglo-Indian community. Its term is 5 years, unless sooner dissolved.

The current chief minister is Mamata Banerjee, who assumed the office on 20 May 2011. She is the founder and leader of the All India Trinamool Congress party, which won 184 seats (out of 294) in the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 211 seats (out of 294) in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election and 215 seats (out of 294) in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.

Head Leaders

House	Leader	Portrait	Since
Constitutional Posts
Governor of West Bengal	C. V. Ananda Bose		23 November 2022
Chief Minister of West Bengal	Mamata Banerjee		20 May 2011
Speaker of the House West Bengal Legislative Assembly	Biman Banerjee		30 May 2011
Deputy Speaker of the House West Bengal Legislative Assembly	Asish Banerjee		02 July 2021
Leader of the House West Bengal Legislative Assembly	Mamata Banerjee		05 May 2021
Deputy Leader of the House West Bengal Legislative Assembly	Sovandeb Chattopadhyay		28 July 2022
Leader of the Opposition West Bengal Legislative Assembly	Suvendu Adhikari		10 May 2021
Deputy Leader of the Opposition West Bengal Legislative Assembly	Mihir Goswami		10 May 2021
Chief Justice Of Calcutta High Court	Prakash Shrivastava		11 October 2021
Chief Secretary of West Bengal	Hari Krishna Dwivedi		1 June 2021

History

On 18 January 1862, under the Indian Councils Act of 1861, a 12-member Legislative Council for Bengal was founded by the Governor-General of India with the Lt Governor of Bengal and some nominated members. The strength of this council was gradually increased by subsequent acts. Under the Indian Councils Act of 1892, the maximum strength of the council was increased to 20 members out of which seven members were to be elected. After the Indian Councils Act of 1909, the number raised to 50 members.^[2]

 

Map of West Bengal

Organization

• The West Bengal government is divided into different ministries.

Departments^[3]

1	Agricultural Marketing
2	Agriculture
3	Animal Resources Development
4	Backward Classes Welfare
5	Consumer Affairs
6	Co-operation
7	Correctional Administration
8	Disaster Management and Civil Defence
9	Environment
10	Finance
11	Fire and Emergency Services
12	Fisheries
13	Food and Supplies
14	Food Processing Industries and Horticulture
15	Forests
16	Health and Family Welfare
17	Higher Education
18	Home and Hill Affairs
19	Housing
20	Industry, Commerce and Enterprises
21	Information & Cultural Affairs
22	Information Technology and Electronics
23	Irrigation and Waterways
24	Judicial
25	Labour
26	Land and Land Reforms and Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation
27	Law
28	Mass Education Extension and Library Services
29	Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Textiles
30	Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education
31	Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources
32	North Bengal Development
33	Panchayats and Rural Development
34	Parliamentary Affairs
35	Paschimanchal Unnayan Affairs
36	Personnel and Administrative Reforms
37	Planning and Statistics
38	Power
39	Programme Monitoring
40	Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction
41	Public Health Engineering
42	Public Works
43	School Education
44	Science and Technology and Biotechnology
45	Self Help Group and Self Employment
46	Sundarban Affairs
47	Technical Education, Training & Skill Development
48	Tourism
49	Transport
50	Tribal Development
51	Urban Development and Municipal Affairs
52	Water resources Investigation and Development
53	Women and Child Development and Social Welfare
54	Youth Services and Sports

Department and Secretaries^[4]

Serial	Department	Secretary
1	Chief Secretary	Chief Secretary, Dr. Hari Krishna Dwivedi, IAS
2	Agriculture	Principal Secretary, Sri Onkar Singh Meena, IAS
3	Agricultural Marketing	Principal Secretary, Dr. A. Subbiah, IAS
4	Animal Resources Development	Additional Chief Secretary, (Additional Charge) , Sri Vivek Kumar,IAS
5	Backward Classes Welfare	Secretary, Shri Sanjay Bansal, IAS
6	Consumer Affairs	Principal Secretary, Smt. Roshni Sen, IAS
7	Co-operation	Secretary, Sri Jagdish Prasad Meena, IAS
8	Correctional Administration	Principal Secretary, Dr.Ravi Inder Singh,IAS
9	Disaster Management and Civil Defence	Principal Secretary, Sri Dushyant Nariala, IAS
10	Environment	Principal Secretary (Additional Charge), Smt. Roshni Sen, IAS
11	Finance	Additional Chief Secretary,Dr. Manoj Pant, IAS
12	Fire and Emergency Services	Additional Chief Secretary, Sri Manoj Kumar Agarwal, IAS
13	Fisheries	Secretary, Shri Avanindra Singh, IAS
14	Food and Supplies	Secretary, Sri Parwez Ahmad Siddiqui, IAS
15	Food Processing Industries and Horticulture	Additional Chief Secretary, Dr Subrata Gupta, IAS
16	Forests	Additional Chief Secretary, Sri Vivek Kumar, IAS
17	Health and Family Welfare	Secretary, Sri Narayan Swaroop Nigam, IAS
18	Higher Education	Principal Secretary, (Additional Charge) Sri Manish Jain,IAS
19	Home and Hill Affairs	Additional Chief Secretary, Sri B.P. Gopalika, IAS
20	Housing	Principal Secretary, Shri Rajesh Kumar Sinha, IAS
21	Industry, Commerce and Enterprises	Secretary, Smt. Vandana Yadav, IAS
22	Information and Cultural Affairs	Secretary, Sri Santanu Basu , IAS
23	Information Technology and Electronics	Secretary, Sri Randhir Kumar, IAS
24	Irrigation and Waterways	Principal Secretary, (Additional Charge) Sri Prabhat Kumar Mishra, IAS
25	Judicial	Principal Secretary, Shri Siddhartha Kanjilal, WBJS
26	Labour	Principal Secretary, Sri Barun Kumar Ray,IAS
27	Land and Land Reforms & Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation	Secretary, Smt. Smaraki Mahapatra, IAS
28	Law	Secretary, Sri Pradip Kumar Panja, WBJS
29	Mass Education Extension and Library Services	Principal Secretary, Sri Anoop Kumar Aggarwal, IAS
30	Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises and Textiles	Principal Secretary, Sri Rajesh Pandey, IAS
31	Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education	Secretary, Md. Ghulam Ali Ansari, IAS
32	North Bengal Development	Additional Chief Secretary, Sri Ajit Ranjan Bardhan, IAS
33	Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources	Additional Chief Secretary (Additional Charge), Sri S. Suresh Kumar, IAS
34	Panchayats and Rural Development	Secretary, Dr. P. Ulaganathan
35	Parliamentary Affairs	Additional Chief Secretary, (Additional Charge) Sri B.P. Gopalika,IAS
36	Pashimanchal Unnayan Affairs	Additional Chief Secretary (Additional Charge), Sri Subrata Biswas, IAS
			37	Personnel and Administrative Reforms	Additional Chief Secretary (Additional Charge), Sri B.P. Gopalika, IAS
38	Planning and Statistics	Additional Chief Secretary (Additional Charge), Dr. Manoj Pant, IAS
39	Programme Monitoring	Secretary, Dr. P. B. Salim, IAS
40	Power	Additional Chief Secretary, Sri S. Suresh Kumar, IAS
41	Public Health Engineering	Principal Secretary, Sri Surendra Gupta, IAS
42	Public Works	Secretary, Smt. Antara Acharya, IAS
43	Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction	Secretary, Smt. Smita Pandey, IAS
			44	School Education	Principal Secretary, Sri Manish Jain, IAS
			45	Science and Technology and Bio-technology	Additional Chief Secretary, Shri Hirdyesh Mohan, IAS
46	Self Help Group and Self Employment	Secretary (Additional Charge), Dr. P. Ulaganathan, IAS
47	Sundarban Affairs	Additional Chief Secretary, Shri Atri Bhattacharya, IAS
48	Technical Education, Training & Skill Development	Additional Chief Secretary, Dr. Krishna Gupta , IAS
49	Tourism	Secretary, Dr. Saumitra Mohan, IAS
50	Transport	Principal Secretary, (Additional Charge) Sri Binod Kumar, IAS
51	Tribal Development	Secretary, Smt. Choten Dhendup Lama, IAS
			52	Urban Development and Municipal Affairs	Principal Secretary , Shri Khalil Ahmed, IAS
53	Water Resources Investigation and Development	Principal Secretary, (Additional Charge) Sri Prabhat Kumar Mishra, IAS
54	Women and Child Development and Social Welfare	Principal Secretary, Smt. Sanghamitra Ghosh,Indian Administrative Service IAS
55	Youth Services and Sports	Additional Chief Secretary, Sri Subrata Biswas, IAS

Council of Ministers

• The West Bengal government^[a] headed by Mamata Banerjee has 40 ministers. Among them, 10 are Ministers of State holding independent charge, 9 are junior ministers and 20 are senior ministers.^[5]

1. The current government running is Third Mamata Banerjee ministry since 10 May 2021.

S.No	Name^[citation needed]	Portrait	Constituency	Assumed office^[citation needed]	Department	Party
1.	Mamata Banerjee (Chief Minister)		Bhabanipur	5 May 2021	Home & Hill Affairs Planning Statistics Program Implementation Personnel & Administration Health and Family Welfare Land and Land Reforms Refugee and Rehabilitation Information & Cultural Affairs Department of Planning, Statistics & Programme Monitoring		AITC
Cabinet Ministers
2.	Jyotipriya Mallick		Habra	10 May 2021	Forest Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources		AITC
3.	Bankim Chandra Hazra		Sagar	10 May 2021	Sundarban Affairs		AITC
4.	Manas Bhunia		Sabang	10 May 2021	Water Resources Investigation and Development & Department of Environment		AITC
5.	Snehasis Chakraborty		Jangipara	10 May 2021	Transport		AITC
6.	Moloy Ghatak		Asansol Uttar	10 May 2021	Law, Judicial Department of Labour		AITC
7.	Aroop Biswas		Tollygunge	10 May 2021	Power Youth Affairs and Sports Department of Housing		AITC
8.	Ujjal Biswas		Krishnanagar Dakshin	10 May 2021	Department of science and technology and bio-technology		AITC
9.	Arup Roy		Howrah Madhya	10 May 2021	Co-operatives		AITC
10.	Rathin Ghosh		Madhyamgram	10 May 2021	Food and Supplies		AITC
11.	Firhad Hakim		Kolkata Port	10 May 2021	Urban Development & Municipal Affairs		AITC
12.	Chandranath Sinha		Bolpur	10 May 2021	Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Textiles		AITC
13.	Sovandeb Chattopadhyay		Khardaha (Resigned as MLA from Bhabanipur on 21 May 2021)	10 May 2021	Agriculture and parliamentary affair		AITC
14.	Bratya Basu		Dum Dum	10 May 2021	School and Higher Education		AITC
15.	Pulak Roy		Uluberia Dakshin	10 May 2021	Public Health Engineering Department of Public works Development		AITC
16.	Shashi Panja		Shyampukur	10 May 2021	Women and Child Development and Social Welfare Department of Industry, Commerce and Enterprises Department of Public Enterprises and Indrustrial Reconstruction		AITC
17.	Md. Ghulam Rabbani		Goalpokhar	10 May 2021	Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education		AITC
18.	Biplab Mitra		Harirampur	10 May 2021	Department of consumer affairs		AITC
19.	Javed Ahmed Khan		Kasba	10 May 2021	Disaster Management and Civil Defence		AITC
20.	Swapan Debnath		Purbasthali Dakshin	10 May 2021	Animal Resources Development		AITC
21.	Siddiqullah Chowdhury		Manteswar	10 May 2021	Mass Education Extension and Library Services		AITC
Ministers Of State (Independent Charge)
22.	Becharam Manna		Singur	10 May 2021	Minister of state , Department of agricultural marketing (I/C) Panchayats Raj and Rural Development		AITC
23.	Subrata Saha		Sagardighi	10 May 2021	Food Processing Industries and Horticulture		AITC
24.	Humayun Kabir		Debra	10 May 2021	Technical Education, Training and Skill Development		AITC
25.	Akhil Giri		Ramnagar	10 May 2021	Minister of state, Correctional administration(I/C)		AITC
26.	Chandrima Bhattacharya		Dum Dum Uttar	10 May 2021	Finance MoS in Health and Family Welfare MoS in Land & Land Reforms MoS in Refugee and Rehabilitiation		AITC
27.	Ratna De (Nag)		Pandua	10 May 2021	Environment Science and Technology and Bio-Technology		AITC
28.	Sandhya Rani Tudu		Manbazar	10 May 2021	Paschimanchal Unnayan Affairs MoS in Parliament Affairs		AITC
29.	Bulu Chik Baraik		Mal	10 May 2021	Backward Classes Welfare Tribal Development		AITC
30.	Sujit Bose		Bidhannagar	10 May 2021	Fire and Emergency Services		AITC
31.	Indranil Sen		Chandannagar	10 May 2021	Minister of state, technical education, training and skill development (I/C) Information and Cultural Affairs		AITC
Ministers Of State
32.	Dilip Mondal		Bishnupur	10 May 2021	Transport		AITC
33.	Akhruzzaman		Raghunathganj	10 May 2021	Power		AITC
34.	Seuli Saha		Keshpur	10 May 2021	Panchayet and Rural Development		AITC
35.	Srikanta Mahata		Salboni	10 May 2021	Department of consumer affairs		AITC
36.	Sabina Yeasmin		Mothabari	10 May 2021	Irrigation and Waterways North Bengal Development		AITC
37.	Birbaha Hansda		Jhargram	10 May 2021	Department of self-help group and self-employment(i/c) an department of forests		AITC
38.	Jyotsna Mandi		Ranibandh	10 May 2021	Food and Supplies		AITC
39.	Paresh Chandra Adhikary		Mekliganj	10 May 2021	School and Higher Education		AITC
40.	Manoj Tiwary		Shibpur	10 May 2021	Youth Affairs and Sports		AITC

References

Citations

1. "West Bengal (state)". Indian Government. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
2. "The Parliament of West Bengal, India". cpahq.org. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
3. "Departments". Government of West Bengal.
4. "Secretaries". Government of West Bengal.
5. "List of Current Ministers in Mamata's second cabinet". wb.gov.in.

Sources

• "West Bengal Government Publications". New Administrative Building at Nabanna. wbxpress.com. Retrieved 28 October 2006.
• . Legislative Bodies in India. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2006.
• . Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 18 August 2006. Retrieved 26 August 2006.
• "Council of Ministers in West Bengal, 2016". West Bengal Govt. Orders. Retrieved 16 August 2012.

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