Official emblem | |
| Formation | 26 January 1950 |
|---|---|
| Government type | State government |
| Seat of Government | Nabanna, Howrah |
| Country |  India |
| Website | https://wb.gov.in/ |
| Legislative branch | |
| Assembly | |
| Speaker | Biman Banerjee |
| Deputy Speaker | Asish Banerjee |
| Members in Assembly | 294 |
| Meeting place | Bidhan Sabha Bhavan, Kolkata |
| Executive branch | |
| Governor | C. V. Ananda Bose |
| Chief Minister | Mamata Banerjee |
| Chief Secretary | Hari Krishna Dwivedi, IAS |
| Appointer | President of India |
| Departments | 54 |
| Judiciary | |
| High Court | Calcutta High Court |
| Chief Justice | Justice T. S. Sivagnanam |
| Seat | B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata |
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.
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.
| 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 | T. S. Sivagnanam | 11 May 2023 | |
| Chief Secretary of West Bengal | Hari Krishna Dwivedi | 1 June 2021 | |
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]
| 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 |
| Serial | Department | Secretary | |
| 1 | Chief Secretary | Chief Secretary, Hari Krishna Dwivedi, IAS | |
| 2 | Agriculture | Principal Secretary, Sri Onkar Singh Meena, IAS | |
| 3 | Agricultural Marketing | Principal Secretary, A. Subbaiah, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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), Manoj Pant, IAS | |
| 39 | Programme Monitoring | Secretary, 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), P. Ulaganathan, IAS | |
| 47 | Sundarban Affairs | Additional Chief Secretary, Shri Atri Bhattacharya, IAS | |
| 48 | Technical Education, Training & Skill Development | Additional Chief Secretary, Krishna Gupta , IAS | |
| 49 | Tourism | Secretary, 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, IAS | |
| 55 | Youth Services and Sports | Additional Chief Secretary, Sri Subrata Biswas, IAS |
| S.No | Name[6] | Portrait | Constituency | Assumed office[7] | Department | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mamata Banerjee (Chief Minister) |
Bhabanipur | 5 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| Cabinet Ministers | |||||||
| 2 | Jyotipriya Mallick | Habra | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 3 | Bankim Chandra Hazra | Sagar | 10 May 2021 | AITC | |||
| 4 | Manas Bhunia | Sabang | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 5 | Snehasis Chakraborty | Jangipara | 3 August 2022 | AITC | |||
| 6 | Moloy Ghatak | Asansol Uttar | 10 May 2021 | AITC | |||
| 7 | Aroop Biswas | Tollyganj | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 8 | Ujjal Biswas | Krishnanagar Dakshin | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 9 | Arup Roy | Howrah Madhya | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 10 | Rathin Ghosh | Madhyamgram | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 11 | Firhad Hakim | Kolkata Port | 10 May 2021 | AITC | |||
| 12 | Chandranath Sinha | Bolpur | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 13 | Sovandeb Chattopadhyay | Khardaha | 10 May 2021 | AITC | |||
| 14 | Bratya Basu | Dum Dum | 10 May 2021 | AITC | |||
| 15 | Pulak Roy | Uluberia Dakshin | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 16 | Shashi Panja | Shyampukur | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 17 | Biplab Mitra | Harirampur | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 18 | Javed Ahmed Khan | Kasba | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 19 | Swapan Debnath | Purbasthali Dakshin | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 20 | Siddiqullah Chowdhury | Manteswar | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 21 | Udayan Guha | Dinhata | 3 August 2022 | AITC | |||
| 22 | Babul Supriyo | Ballygunge | 3 August 2022 |
|
AITC | ||
| 23 | Pradip Mazumdar | Durgapur Purba | 3 August 2022 |
|
AITC | ||
| 24 | Partha Bhowmick | Naihati | 3 August 2022 |
|
AITC | ||
| Ministers of State (Independent Charge) | |||||||
| 25 | Becharam Manna | Singur | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 26 | Subrata Saha | Sagardighi | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 27 | Akhil Giri | Ramnagar | 10 May 2021 | AITC | |||
| 28 | Chandrima Bhattacharya | Dum Dum Uttar | 10 May 2021 | AITC | |||
| 29 | Sandhya Rani Tudu | Manbazar | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 30 | Bulu Chik Baraik | Mal | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 31 | Sujit Bose | Bidhannagar | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 32 | Indranil Sen | Chandannagar | 10 May 2021 | AITC | |||
| Ministers Of State | |||||||
| 33 | Dilip Mondal | Bishnupur | 10 May 2021 | AITC | |||
| 34 | Akhruzzaman | Raghunathganj | 10 May 2021 | AITC | |||
| 35 | Seuli Saha | Keshpur | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 36 | Tajmul Hossain | Harishchandrapur | 02 August 2022 |
|
AITC | ||
| 37 | Sabina Yeasmin | Mothabari | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 38 | Birbaha Hansda | Jhargram | 10 May 2021 | AITC | |||
| 39 | Jyotsna Mandi | Ranibandh | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
| 40 | Satyajit Barman | Hemtabad | 10 August 2022 | AITC | |||
| 41 | Manoj Tiwary | Shibpur | 10 May 2021 |
|
AITC | ||
