Bhubaneswar, May 26: Reshuffle in the state political boundary continues as BJD Supremo and CM Naveen Patnaik on Thursday appointed 17 ministers and MLAs as the new chairpersons of 17 district planning committees (DPC).
IN the list of 17 Ministers and MLAs, 10 ministers who have been given charge are Sushant Singh (Sambalpur), Ramesh Chandra Majhi (Nuapada), Niranjan Pujari (Baragarh), Ananta Das (Bhadrak), Surya Narayan Patro (Bolangir), Nrusingha Charan Sahu (Kendrapara), Pratap Jena (Gajapati), Sashi Bhusan Behera (Nayagarh), Chandrasarathi Behera (Malkangiri) and Badrinarayan Patra (Sonepur). While 7 MLAs who have been given charge are Mahidhar Rana (Boudh), Saroj Kumar Samal (Dhenkanal), Lalbihari Himirika (Rayagada), Rajendra Sahu (Khurda), Subrat Tarai (Sundargarh), Prafulla Kumar Pangi (Koraput) and Aswini Kumar Patra (Balasore).
On the other hand, Debi Mishra, Bhupinder Singh & Debasish Samantaray of BJD have been appointed as state level coordinators pf ‘Ama Gaon Ama Bikash’.