Jharkhand Council of Ministers

Jharkhand Council of Ministers

Seat of Government	Ranchi
Legislative branch
Assembly	Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Speaker	Rabindra Nath Mahato [1]
Members in Assembly	81
Executive branch
Governor	Santosh Gangwar [2]
Chief Minister	Hemant Soren [3]
Chief Secretary	Avinash Kumar [4]

The Jharkhand Council of Ministers is the executive wing of the Government of Jharkhand and is headed by the State's chief minister Hemant Soren, who is the head of government and leader of the state cabinet. The current state council of ministers were sworn in on 28 November 2024, following the 2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election. ^[5] 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 the Jharkhand cadre of the IAS. The chief executive officer responsible for issuing orders on behalf of the government is the chief secretary to the state government, with Avinash Kumar being the current holder of that position. ^[6]

Constitutional requirement

For the Council of Ministers to aid and advise Governor

According to Article 163 of the Indian Constitution,

# There shall be a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at the head to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his function, except in so far as he is by or under this Constitution required to exercise his functions or any of them in his discretion.

1. If any question arises whether any matter is or is not a matter as respects which the Governor is by or under this Constitution required to act in his discretion, the decision of the Governor in his discretion shall be final, and the validity of anything done by the Governor shall not be called in question on the ground that he ought or ought not to have acted in his discretion.
2. The question whether any, and if so what, advice was tendered by Ministers to the Governor shall not be inquired into in any court.

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.

For other provisions as to Ministers

According to Article 164 of the Indian Constitution,

# The Chief Minister shall be appointed by the Governor and the other Ministers shall be appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister, and the Minister shall hold office during the pleasure of the Governor:
Provided that in the States of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, there shall be a Minister in charge of tribal welfare who may in addition be in charge of the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and backward classes or any other work.

1. The Council of Minister shall be collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly of the State.
2. Before a Minister enters upon his office, the Governor shall administer to him the oaths of office and of secrecy according to the forms set out for the purpose in the Third Schedule.
3. A Minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of the Legislature of the State shall at the expiration of that period cease to be a Minister.
4. The salaries and allowances of Ministers shall be such as the Legislature of the State may from time to time by law determine and, until the Legislature of the State so determines, shall be a specified in the Second Schedule.

Chief Minister

Main article: Chief Minister of Jharkhand

Like any Indian state, Chief Ministers of Jharkhand 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 Hemant Soren. ^[7]

State Cabinet

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.

Council of Ministers

Sources. ^{[8] [9] [10] [11]}

#	Portrait	Minister	Portfolio	Constituency	Tenure		Party
					Took office	Left office
Chief Minister
1		Hemant Soren	Personnel, Administrative Reforms and Rajbhasha Home (including Prison) School Education and Literacy Road Construction Building Construction Cabinet Secretariat & Vigilance (excluding Parliamentary Affairs) All other portfolios not allocated to any minister	Barhait	28 November 2024	Incumbent		JMM
Cabinet Ministers
2		Radha Krishna Kishore	Finance Commercial Tax Planning & Development Parliamentary Affairs	Chhatarpur	5 December 2024	Incumbent		INC
3		Sanjay Prasad Yadav	Industry Labour Employment, Training & Skill Development	Godda	5 December 2024	Incumbent		RJD
4		Deepak Birua	Transport Revenue, Registration and Land Reforms (Unregistered)	Chaibasa	5 December 2024	Incumbent		JMM
5		Chamra Linda	Scheduled Tribes Scheduled Castes Backward Classes (excluding Minority Welfare)	Bishunpur	5 December 2024	Incumbent		JMM
6		Irfan Ansari	Health, Medical Education & Family Welfare Food, Public Distribution & Consumer Affairs Disaster Management	Jamtara	5 December 2024	Incumbent		INC
7		Hafizul Hasan	Water Resources Minority Welfare	Madhupur	5 December 2024	Incumbent		JMM
8		Dipika Pandey Singh	Rural Development Rural Works Panchayati Raj	Mahagama	5 December 2024	Incumbent		INC
9		Yogendra Prasad	Drinking Water & Sanitation Excise & Prohibition	Gomia	5 December 2024	Incumbent		JMM
10		Sudivya Kumar	Urban Development & Housing Higher & Technical Education Tourism, Art & Culture, Sports & Youth Affairs	Giridih	5 December 2024	Incumbent		JMM
11		Shilpi Neha Tirkey	Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Co-operatives	Mandar	5 December 2024	Incumbent		INC

References

1. "JMM's Rabindra Nath Mahato elected unopposed as Jharkhand Assembly Speaker". The Hindu. 10 December 2024.
2. "Santosh Kumar Gangwar sworn in as Jharkhand Governor". The Hindu. 31 July 2024.
3. "Hemant Soren takes oath as Jharkhand's 14th Chief Minister". The Times of India. 28 November 2024.
4. "Avinash Kumar appointed new Chief Secretary of Jharkhand". The Statesman. 30 September 2025.
5. Bhelari, Amit (24 November 2024). "Hemant Soren to take oath as Jharkhand CM on November 28". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 14 December 2025.
6. "Jharkhand appoints senior IAS officer Avinash Kumar as new Chief Secretary". The Indian Express. 30 September 2025. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
7. "Hemant Soren takes oath as Jharkhand Chief Minister". Hindustan Times. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
8. India Today (7 December 2024). "Hemant Soren allocates portfolios to ministers, keeps Home Ministry". Archived from the original on 13 December 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
9. "Ministers & Portfolio". cm.jharkhand.gov.in. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
10. "Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren expands Cabinet". The Hindu. 5 December 2024. Archived from the original on 13 December 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
11. "Jharkhand Cabinet Ministers List 2024: Full list of Jharkhand council of ministers and their portfolios". The Indian Express. 5 December 2024. Archived from the original on 13 December 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2024.