Jaipur Mar 25 PTI Rajasthan Urban Development and Housing Minister Shanti Kumar Dhariwal said on Friday that public representatives will have to make collective efforts for the conservation of groundwater All of us have to take a pledge to get the work done for water conservation in our respective constituencies he said during a discussion on a resolution on water conservation moved in the Assembly by deputy leader of opposition Rajendra Rathore He said the state governments policy on groundwater conservation allows water harvesting project in a plot of 300 square metre but a very few people do so Speaking on the resolution Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Ramesh Meena said that all MLAs and MPs should attend gram sabhas village council meetings of their respective areas and ensure groundwater conservation works Education Minister B D Kalla and Public Health Engineering Minister Mahesh Joshi called for joint efforts for water conservation Earlier BJP MLA Ashok Lahoti presented a resolution seeking to make awareness about cleanliness compulsory in school curriculum BJP MLA Biharilal presented a resolution for according Rajasthani language the status of second official language in the state PTI AG SMN

Jaipur Nov 24 PTI Newly inducted cabinet minister Vishvendra Singh on Wednesday took charge as tourism minister in secretariat Singh who was sacked along with the then deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot and another minister Ramesh Meena last year for rebellion against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had religious rituals performed through a priest before sitting on the chair After taking over he spoke about making Rajasthan a more tourist-friendly state Recalling his earlier tenure the tourism minister said many innovations started by him helped develop the tourism sector of the state They would be carried forward and new tourism circuits will also be developed to promote tourism he said To this end a review meeting of the tourism department and Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation RTDC will be held and a strategy will be developed he said Besides Singh public health and engineering department PHED minister Mahesh Joshi and health minister Parsadi Lal Meena also took charge Fifteen ministers -including three who were elevated from Minister of State to cabinet rank -- were sworn in on Sunday for the expanded Gehlot cabinet fulfilling a key demand made by Pilot whose rebellion last year shook the state Congress government The new inductees were allotted portfolios on Monday PTI SDA VN VN

Jaipur Nov 22 PTI Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday allocated portfolios to ministers of his expanded cabinet retaining home and financeTwelve new ministers were inducted and three ministers of state were elevated to cabinet rank The 15 ministers were sworn in on SundayFrom the old cabinet -- Pratap Singh Khachariyawas was allocated food and civil supplies Shanti Dhariwal retained UDH and parliamentary affairs Lal Chand Kataria retained agriculture and Pramod Jain Bhaya retained mines and petroleumBD Kalla and Parsadi Lal Meena were allocated education and health respectivelyThe new ministers who got portfolios in the cabinet rank include Hemaram Choudhary forest Mahesh Joshi PHED Ramlal Jat revenue Ramesh Meena panchayati raj and rural development Vishvendra Singh toursim and civil aviation Govindram Meghwal disaster management and relief and Shakuntala Rawat industriesSingh and Meena were sacked last year from the Rajasthan Cabinet and among them Singh got back his old portfolio of tourismMamta Bhupesh was allocated women and child development Bhajan Lal PWD Tikaram Jully social justice and empowerment as they were elevated to cabinet rank from minister of state PTI SDA AG ANB ANB

Jaipur: Ashok Gehlot’s new-look cabinet was revealed today with 15 new faces. Five Sachin Pilot loyalists are among the 30 state ministers as the big revamp aims to put the differences – that became a public spectacle last year – to rest.  In a balancing act, the Chief Minister told party workers at a meeting: “The contribution to the governance of those who could not be inducted in the cabinet is no less than those who have been made ministers today.”  Sachin Pilot whose open rebellion had pushed the ruling Congress into trouble last year today presented a united front and insisted that “there are no factions in the party”.

Jaipur: Ashok Gehlot’s new-look cabinet was revealed today with 15 new faces. Five Sachin Pilot loyalists are among the 30 state ministers as the big revamp aims to put the differences – that became a public spectacle last year – to rest.  In a balancing act, the Chief Minister told party workers at a meeting: “The contribution to the governance of those who could not be inducted in the cabinet is no less than those who have been made ministers today.”  Sachin Pilot whose open rebellion had pushed the ruling Congress into trouble last year today presented a united front and insisted that “there are no factions in the party”.

Jaipur: Ashok Gehlot’s new-look cabinet was revealed today with 15 new faces. Five Sachin Pilot loyalists are among the 30 state ministers as the big revamp aims to put the differences – that became a public spectacle last year – to rest.  In a balancing act, the Chief Minister told party workers at a meeting: “The contribution to the governance of those who could not be inducted in the cabinet is no less than those who have been made ministers today.”  Sachin Pilot whose open rebellion had pushed the ruling Congress into trouble last year today presented a united front and insisted that “there are no factions in the party”.

Jaipur: Ashok Gehlot’s new-look cabinet was revealed today with 15 new faces. Five Sachin Pilot loyalists are among the 30 state ministers as the big revamp aims to put the differences – that became a public spectacle last year – to rest.  In a balancing act, the Chief Minister told party workers at a meeting: “The contribution to the governance of those who could not be inducted in the cabinet is no less than those who have been made ministers today.”  Sachin Pilot whose open rebellion had pushed the ruling Congress into trouble last year today presented a united front and insisted that “there are no factions in the party”.

Jaipur: Ashok Gehlot’s new-look cabinet was revealed today with 15 new faces. Five Sachin Pilot loyalists are among the 30 state ministers as the big revamp aims to put the differences – that became a public spectacle last year – to rest.  In a balancing act, the Chief Minister told party workers at a meeting: “The contribution to the governance of those who could not be inducted in the cabinet is no less than those who have been made ministers today.”  Sachin Pilot whose open rebellion had pushed the ruling Congress into trouble last year today presented a united front and insisted that “there are no factions in the party”.

Jaipur: Ashok Gehlot’s new-look cabinet was revealed today with 15 new faces. Five Sachin Pilot loyalists are among the 30 state ministers as the big revamp aims to put the differences – that became a public spectacle last year – to rest.  In a balancing act, the Chief Minister told party workers at a meeting: “The contribution to the governance of those who could not be inducted in the cabinet is no less than those who have been made ministers today.”  Sachin Pilot whose open rebellion had pushed the ruling Congress into trouble last year today presented a united front and insisted that “there are no factions in the party”.

Jaipur: Ashok Gehlot’s new-look cabinet was revealed today with 15 new faces. Five Sachin Pilot loyalists are among the 30 state ministers as the big revamp aims to put the differences – that became a public spectacle last year – to rest.  In a balancing act, the Chief Minister told party workers at a meeting: “The contribution to the governance of those who could not be inducted in the cabinet is no less than those who have been made ministers today.”  Sachin Pilot whose open rebellion had pushed the ruling Congress into trouble last year today presented a united front and insisted that “there are no factions in the party”.