While retaining key portfolios like Home, General Administration, Works and Water Resources, Patnaik elevated Prasanna Acharya by giving him Finance portfolio earlier held by Prafulla Ghadai. The senior MLA from Sukinda in Jajpur district, Ghadai, who presented nine annual budgets in a row, was dropped from the ministry in a surprise move.
Apart from Finance, Acharya was given Public Enterprise, also held by Ghadai.
ST & SC Development, Minorities and Backward Class minister Lal Behari Himirika was the only minister whose portfolio remained unchaged in the entire exercise.
Three other senior leaders - Revenue and Disaster Management minister S N Patro, Higher Education minister Badrinarayan Patra and Rural Development minister Bikram Arukh - were partially hit in the exercise.
Patro was divested of his additional charge of Information and Public Relations, Arukh of Law and Patra of Sports and Youth Affairs.
Damodar Rout, who was dropped in May 2011 as Agriculture minister, has got Health and Family Welfare department. Rout was also given additional charge of newly created Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises department.
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