District incharge ministers appointed in Karnataka

The Siddaramaiah government on Friday appointed the ministers in charge of the various districts, 20 days after the government came into power.

According to the government order, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar will be in charge of Bengaluru City, G Parameshwara - Tumakuru, H K Patil - Gadag, K H Muniyappa - Bengaluru Rural, Ramalinga Reddy - Ramanagara, K J George - Chikkamagaluru, M B Patil - Vijayapura, Dinesh Gundu Rao - Dakshina Kannada and H C Mahadevappa - Mysuru.

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The order further read that Satish Jarkiholi will look after Belagavi district, Priyank Kharge - Kalaburagi, Shivanand Patil - Haveri, B Z Zamir Ahmed Khan - Vijayanagara, Sharanabasappa Darshanapur - Yadgir, Eshwar Khandre - Bidar, N Cheluvarayaswamy - Mandya, S S Mallikarjun - Davangere, Santosh Lad - Dharwad, Dr Sharan Prakash Patil - Raichur and R B Thimmapur - Bagalkote. K Venkatesh has been given the responsibility of Chamarajanagara, Shivaraj Thangadagi - Koppal, D Sudhakar - Chitradurga, B Nagendra Ballari, K S Rajanna - Hassan, B S Suresh - Kolar, Laxmi Hebbalkar - Udupi, Mankal Vaidya - Uttara Kannada, Madhu Bangarappa - Shivamogga, Dr M C Sudhakar - Chikkaballapura, and N S Boseraju - Kodagu.