District-in-charge ministers have been announced for 28 districts of Karnataka, on Monday. While there were many contenders to become the district-in-charge minister of Bengaluru Urban district, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has put an end to speculations by retaining the state capital with him.
The district-in-charge ministers will also act as COVID-19 management ministers for the districts for which they have been made in charge. Three ministers have been given the responsibility of handling two districts each. BC Patil has been made in charge of Chitradurga and Gadag, while K Gopalaiah is in charge of Hassan and Mandya. Meanwhile, Shankar B Patil Munenakoppa has been appointed as in-charge minister of the Raichur and Bidar districts.
Below is the list of districts and their in-charge ministers:
Bengaluru Urban – Basavarj Bommai
Belagavi – Govind M Karjol
Chikkamagaluru – KS Eshwarappa
Ballari – B Sriramulu
Chamarajanagar – V Somanna
Vijayapura – Umesh V Katti
Udupi – S Angara
Tumakuru – Araga Jnanendra
Ramanagara – Dr. CN Ashwath Narayan
Bagalkot – CC Patil
Koppal – Anand Singh
Uttar Kannada – Kota Srinivas Poojary
Yadgir – Prabhu Chawan
Kalaburagi – Murugesh Nirani
Haveri – A Shivaram Hebbar
Mysuru – ST Somashekhar
Chitradurga & Gadag – BC Patil
Davanagere – BA Basavaraj
Bengaluru Rural – Dr. K Sudhakar
Hassan & Mandya – K Gopalaiah
Vijayanagara – Shashikala Jolle
Chikkaballapur – MTB Nagaraju
Shivamogga – KC Narayanagowda
Kodagu – BC Nagesh
Dakshina Kannada – V Sunil Kumar
Dharwad – Achar Halappa Basappa
Raichur & Bidar – Shankar B Patil Munenakoppa
Kolar – Munirathna
