Kathmandu, July 15: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has formed a 22-member cabinet.
President Ramchandra Paudel administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly appointed ministers.
Earlier, President Paudel administered the oath of office and secrecy to newly appointed Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in a special ceremony at Sheetal Niwas.
The division of duties of the ministers is as follows-
1. KP Sharma Oli, Prime Minister
2. Prakashman Singh, Deputy Prime Minister and Urban Development
3. Bishnu Prasad Paudel, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance
4. Prithvi Subba Gurung, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
5. Ramesh Lekhak, Minister for Home Affairs
6. Sarat Singh Bhandari, Labor and Employment
7. Arju Rana Deuba, Foreign Affairs
8. Nabal Kishor Sah Sudi, Women, Children and Senior Citizen
9. Balaram Adhikari, Land Management and Cooperatives
10. Damodar Bhandari, Industries, Commerce and Supplies
11. Devendra Dahal, Physical Infrastructure and Transport
12. Tejulal Chaudhary, Youth and Sports
13. Pradeep Yadav, Water Supply
14. Pradeep Paudel, Health
15. Ajay Chaurasia, Law Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
16. Badri Prasad Pandey, Tourism
17. Ramnath Adhikari, Agriculture
18. Bidya Bhattarai, Education Science and Technology
19. Manveer Rai, Defense
20. Deepak Khadka, Water Resources and Energy
21. Rajkumar Gupta, Federal Affairs and General Administration
22. Ain Bahadur Shahi Thakuri, Forest and Environment