The Uttarakhand Council of Ministers is the executive wing of Government of Uttarakhand and headed by Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, who is the head of government and leader of the state cabinet. The term of every executive wing is for 5 years. The council of ministers are assisted by department secretaries attached to each ministry who are from IAS Uttarakhand Cadre. The chief executive officer responsible for issuing orders on behalf of government is Chief Secretary to the state government. The current Chief Secretary is Radha Raturi who took charge on 1 February 2024.[1]
According to
Article 163 of the Constitution of India,This means that the Ministers serve under the pleasure of the Governor and he/she may remove them, on the advice of the Chief Minister, whenever they want.
According to
Article 164 of the Constitution of India,See main article: Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. Like any Indian state, Chief Ministers of Uttarakhand is the real head of the government and responsible for state administration. He is the leader of the parliamentary party in the legislature and heads the state cabinet. The current Chief Minister is Pushkar Singh Dhami.
As per the Constitution of India, all portfolios of state government is vested in Chief Minister, who distribute various portfolio to individual ministers whom he nominates to the State Governor. The state governor appoints individual ministers for various portfolios and departments as per advice of Chief Minister and together form the State Cabinet. As the original portfolios are vested with CM, who delegates to others upon his/her wish, actions of individual ministers are part of collective responsibility of the state cabinet and Chief Minister is responsible for actions of each minister. The state cabinet along with Chief Minister, prepares General policy and individual department policy, which will be guiding policy for day-to-day administration of each minister.
This is the current Cabinet of Uttarakhand headed by the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami:[2] [3] [4]
№ | Name | Constituency | Departments | Party | |||
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Chief Minister | |||||||
1 | Pushkar Singh Dhami | Champawat |
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| BJP | ||
Cabinet Ministers | |||||||
2 | Satpal Maharaj | Chaubattakhal |
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| BJP | ||
3 | Premchand Aggarwal | Rishikesh |
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| BJP | ||
4 | Ganesh Joshi | Mussoorie |
| BJP | |||
5 | Dhan Singh Rawat |
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| BJP | |||
6 | Subodh Uniyal |
| BJP | ||||
7 | Rekha Arya |
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| BJP | |||
8 | Chandan Ram Das | Bageshwar |
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| BJP | ||
9 | Saurabh Bahuguna |
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| BJP |