title: Pokhriyal ministry
text: # Pokhriyal ministry
  
  This is the Cabinet of Uttarakhand headed by the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Ramesh Pokhriyal from 2009–2011.
  
  ## Council of Ministers
  
  Here is the list of ministers.
  
  * Cabinet Ministers:
  * Matbar Singh Kandari - Irrigation, Minor Irrigation, Flood Control, Food & Civil Supplies, Social Welfare & Handicapped Welfare
  * Prakash Pant - Parliamentary Affairs, Legislatures, Drinking Water, Labour, Re-organisation, Externally aided project, Election, Uttarakhand river projects related to India Nepal Border
  * Diwakar Bhatt - Revenue, Land management, Disaster management, Food & Civil Supplies, Soldier Welfare
  * Madan Kaushik - Excise, Sugarcane Development and Sugar Industry, Urban Development, Tourism
  * Trivendra Singh Rawat - Agriculture, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Marketing, Fruit industry, Animal Husbandry, Milk Development, Fisheries
  * Rajendra Singh Bhandari - Panchayati Raj, Alternative Energy, Census, Civil Defense and Home Guard, Jail
  * Ministers of State (Independent Charge):
  * Vijaya Barthwal - Rural Development, Women Welfare & Child Development
  * Govind Singh Bisht - Education (Primary, Secondary & Higher)
  * Ministers of State:
  * Khajan Das - Disaster Management, Social Welfare
  * Balwant Singh Bhauryal - Health & Family Welfare, Information Technology
  
  ## Former Ministers
  
  * Cabinet Minister:
  * Bishan Singh Chuphal - Forests and wild animals, Environment, Watershed management, Transport, Cooperatives, Protocol, Rural Engineering (5 July 2009 - 24 December 2009)
  