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{{Short description|Executive branch of government in a state in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}}
{{more citations needed|date=August 2014}}
{{Politics of Uttarakhand}}

The '''Uttarakhand Council of Ministers''' is the executive wing of [[Government of Uttarakhand]] and headed by [[Chief 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 from [[Indian Administrative Service|IAS Uttarakhand Cadre]]. The chief executive officer responsible for issuing orders on behalf of government is [[Chief Secretary (India)|Chief Secretary]] to the state government. The current Chief Secretary is Anand Bardhan who took charge on 1 April 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |last=www.ETGovernment.com |title=Anand Bardhan takes charge as chief secretary of Uttarakhand - ET Government |url=https://government.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/governance/anand-bardhan-takes-charge-as-chief-secretary-of-uttarakhand/119848074#:~:text=Governance-,Anand%20Bardhan%20takes%20charge%20as%20chief%20secretary%20of%20Uttarakhand,be%20among%20his%20major%20priorities. |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=ETGovernment.com |language=en}}</ref>

== Constitutional requirement ==

=== For the Council of Ministers to aid and advise Governor ===
According to [http://www.constitution.org/cons/india/p06163.html Article 163] of the [[Constitution of India]],
{{cquote|
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.

=== For other provisions as to Ministers ===
According to [http://www.constitution.org/cons/india/p06164.html Article 164] of the Constitution of India,
{{cquote|
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.
}}

== Chief Minister ==
{{main|Chief Minister of Uttarakhand}}
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 is [[Pushkar Singh Dhami]].

== State Cabinet ==

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.

===Current Cabinet===
{{main|Second Dhami ministry}}
This is the current Cabinet of Uttarakhand headed by the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami:<ref>[http://cm.uk.gov.in/pages/display/960-cabinet Cabinet of Uttarakhand]. Retrieved on 5 July 2021.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/trivendra-singh-rawat-sworn-in-as-uttarakhand-cm/|title = Trivendra Singh Rawat sworn in as Uttarakhand CM|date = 18 March 2017}}</ref><ref>http://www.uttara.gov.in/upload/announcements/Announcement-256.pdf (PDF)</ref>

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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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!№
!Name
!Constituency
!colspan=2|Departments
!colspan="2"; scope="col" | Party
|-style="text-align:center"
| colspan="7"| '''[[List of chief ministers of Uttarakhand|Chief Minister]]'''
|-style="text-align:center"
| 1
![[File:Pushkar Singh Dhami, Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.jpg|100px]][[Pushkar Singh Dhami]]
| [[Champawat (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Champawat]]
|
* Confidential (Council of Ministers)
* Establishment of Personnel and All India Services
* Alertness, Swaraj, Corruption Elimination and Public Service
* Secretariat Administration
* General Administration
* Planning
* State Property
* Information
* Homes, Prisons, Citizen Protection and Home Guard, Military Welfare
* Revenue
* Industrial Development (Mining)
* Industrial Development
* Labor
|
* Drinking Water
* Energy and Alternative Energy
* Excise
* Justice
* Civil Aviation
* Finance Commercial, Stamp and Registration
* Housing
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
| colspan="7"| '''[[Minister (government)|Cabinet Ministers]]'''
|-style="text-align:center"
| 2
! [[File:Shri Satpal Maharaj At UNO.jpg|100px]]
[[Satpal Maharaj]]
| [[Chaubattakhal (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Chaubattakhal]]
|
* Public Works Department
* Panchayati Raj
* Rural Construction
* Tourism
* Minor Irrigation
|
* Culture
* India-Nepal River Projects
* Irrigation
* Charity
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
| 3
![[File:Ganesh Joshi Mussoorie MLA.jpg|100px]][[Ganesh Joshi]]
|[[Mussoorie (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Mussoorie]]
|
* [http://agriculture.uk.gov.in/ Agriculture]
|
* Agricultural Marketing
* Agricultural Processing
* Agricultural Education
* Plantation and Horticulture
* Silk Development
* Bio Technology
* Sainik Welfare
* Rural Development
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
| 4
![[File:The Higher Education Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Dhan Singh Rawat calls on the Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Sushri Uma Bharti, in New Delhi on July 14, 2017 (cropped).jpg|100px]]
[[Dhan Singh Rawat]]
|[[Srinagar (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Srinagar]]
|
* [[Education]]
|
* Primary Education
* Secondary Education
* Sanskrit Education
* Cooperative
* Higher Education

| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
| 5
![[File:"Subodh Uniyal - July 2021.jpg".jpg|100px]][[Subodh Uniyal]]
|[[Narendranagar (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Narendranagar]]
| colspan="2" |
* [[Uttarakhand Forest Department|Forest]]
* Elections
* Technical Education
* Parliamentary Affairs
* Medical Health [http://health.uk.gov.in/]
* Medical Education
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
| 6
![[File:Rekha Arya.jpg|100px]]
[[Rekha Arya]]
|[[Someshwar (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Someshwar]]
|
* Women and Child Development
*Food and Civil Supplies [http://fcs.uk.gov.in/]
* Consumer Affairs
|
* Sports
* Youth Welfare
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
| 7
! [[Saurabh Bahuguna]]
| [[Sitarganj (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Sitarganj]]
|
* Animal Husbandry
* Milk Development
* Fisheries
|
* Sugarcane Development
* Sugar industry
* Protocol
* Employment
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
| 8
! [[Madan Kaushik]]
| [[Haridwar (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Haridwar]]
|
* Panchayati Raj
*Disaster Management and Rehabilitation
*Ayush and Ayush Education
|
* Reorganization
* Census
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
| 9
! [[Bharat Singh Chaudhary]]
| [[Rudraprayag (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Rudraprayag]]
|
* Rural Development
*Small and Micro-Medium Enterprises
|
* Khadi and Village Industries
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
| 10
! [[Khajan Dass]]
| [[Rajpur Road (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Rajpur Road]]
|
* Social Welfare
*Minority Welfare
|
* Student Welfare
* Language
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
| 11
! [[Pradip Batra]]
| [[Roorkee (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Roorkee]]
|
* Transportation
* Information Technology and Good Governance
|
* Science and Technology
* Biotechnology
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
| 12
! [[Ram Singh Kaira]]
| [[Bhimtal (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)|Bhimtal]]
|
* Urban Development
* Environmental Protection and Climate Change
|
* Watershed Management
| [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}" |
|-style="text-align:center"
|}

== Oath as the state chief minister/minister ==

{{Blockquote|text= 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.|sign=|source=}}
==See also==

* [[Governor of Uttarakhand]]
* [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]]
* [[Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]]
* [[Leader of the Opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]]
* [[Chief Justice of Uttarakhand]]
* [[Union Council of Ministers]]
* [[List of agencies of the government of Uttarakhand]]
* [[List of departments of the government of Uttarakhand]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Uttarakhand ministries}}
{{Councils of ministers of India}}
{{Current Indian ministries}}

{{Uttarakhand}}

[[Category:Government of Uttarakhand]]
[[Category:State council of ministers of India]]
[[Category:2000 establishments in Uttarakhand]]
[[Category:Cabinets established in 2000]]

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