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| State of Uttarakhand उत्तराखण्ड राज्य |
TheUttarakhand Council of Ministers is the executive wing ofGovernment of Uttarakhand and headed byChief Minister of Uttarakhand, who is the head of government and leader of the state cabinet. The term of every executive wing is for five years. The council of ministers are assisted by department secretaries attached to each ministry who are fromIAS Uttarakhand Cadre. The chief executive officer responsible for issuing orders on behalf of government isChief Secretary to the state government. The current Chief Secretary is Anand Bardhan who took charge on 1 April 2025.[1]
According toArticle 163 of theConstitution of India,
There shall be a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at the head to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his function, except in so far as he is by or under this Constitution required to exercise his functions or any of them in his discretion.
- If any question arises whether any matter is or is not a matter as respects which the Governor is by or under this Constitution required to act in his discretion, the decision of the Governor in his discretion shall be final, and the validity of anything done by the Governor shall not be called in question on the ground that he ought or ought not to have acted in his discretion.
- The question whether any, and if so what, advice was tendered by Ministers to the Governor shall not be inquired into in any court.
This means that the Ministers serve under the pleasure of the Governor and he/she may remove them, on the advice of the Chief Minister, whenever they want.
According toArticle 164 of the Constitution of India,
The Chief Minister shall be appointed by the Governor and the other Ministers shall be appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister, and the Minister shall hold office during the pleasure of the Governor:
Provided that in the States of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, there shall be a Minister in charge of tribal welfare who may in addition be in charge of the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and backward classes or any other work.
- The Council of Minister shall be collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly of the State.
- Before a Minister enters upon his office, the Governor shall administer to him the oaths of office and of secrecy according to the forms set out for the purpose in the Third Schedule.
- A Minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of the Legislature of the State shall at the expiration of that period cease to be a Minister.
- The salaries and allowances of Ministers shall be such as the Legislature of the State may from time to time by law determine and, until the Legislature of the State so determines, shall be a specified in the Second Schedule.
Like any Indian state, Chief Ministers of Uttarakhand is the real head of the government and responsible for state administration. He is the leader of the parliamentary party in the legislature and heads the state cabinet. The current Chief Minister isPushkar Singh Dhami.
As per the Constitution of India, all portfolios of state government is vested in Chief Minister, who distribute various portfolio to individual ministers whom he nominates to the State Governor. The state governor appoints individual ministers for various portfolios and departments as per advice of Chief Minister and together form the State Cabinet. As the original portfolios are vested with CM, who delegates to others upon his/her wish, actions of individual ministers are part of collective responsibility of the state cabinet and Chief Minister is responsible for actions of each minister. The state cabinet along with Chief Minister, prepares General policy and individual department policy, which will be guiding policy for day-to-day administration of each minister.
This is the current Cabinet of Uttarakhand headed by the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami:[2][3][4]
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| № | Name | Constituency | Departments | Party | ||
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| 1 |  Pushkar Singh Dhami | Champawat |
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| 2 |  Satpal Maharaj | Chaubattakhal |
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| BJP | |
| 3 |  Ganesh Joshi | Mussoorie |
| BJP | ||
| 4 | .jpg) Dhan Singh Rawat | Srinagar |
| BJP | ||
| 5 |  Subodh Uniyal | Narendranagar |
| BJP | ||
| 6 |  Rekha Arya | Someshwar |
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| BJP | |
| 7 | Saurabh Bahuguna | Sitarganj |
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I, <Name of Chief Minister/Minister>, do swear in the name of God/solemnly affirm that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established, that I will uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India, that I will faithfully and conscientiously discharge my duties as a Minister for the State of () and that I will do right to all manner of people in accordance with the Constitution and the law without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.
