Maharashtra government on Saturday announced the much-awaited guardian ministers for 36 districts. Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis has been named the Guardian Minister for Gadchiroli while, Deputy CM Eknath Shinde will oversee Thane and Mumbai city. Deputy CM Ajit Pawar will serve as Guardian Minister for Beed district and Pune.
State Ministers Ashish Shelar and Mangal Prabhat Lodha will handle the Mumbai suburbs.
NCP’s Dhananjay Munde, who was under fire over the Beed sarpanch murder case, has been excluded from the list of Maharashtra guardian ministers.
Gadchiroli – Devendra Fadnavis
Thane – Eknath Shinde
Mumbai City – Eknath Shinde
Pune – Ajit Pawar
Beed – Ajit Pawar
Nagpur – Chandrashekhar Bawankule
Amravati Chandrashekhar Bawankule
Ahmednagar – Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil
Washim – Hasan Mushrif
Sangli – Chandrakant Patil
Nashik – Girish Mahajan
Palghar – Ganesh Naik
Jalgaon – Gulabrao Patil
Yavatmal – Sanjay Rathod
Mumbai Suburban – Ashish Shelar and Co-Guardian Minister – Mangalprabhat Lodha
Ratnagiri – Uday Samant
Dhule – Jaykumar Rawal
Jalna – Pankaja Munde
Nanded – Atul Save
Chandrapur – Ashok Uike
Satara – Shambhuraj Desai
Raigad – Aditi Tatkare
Latur – Shivendraraje Bhosale
Nandurbar – Manikrao Kokate
Solapur – Jaykumar Gore
Hingoli – Narhari Jirwal
Bhandara – Sanjay Savkare
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar – Sanjay Shirsat
Dharashiv – Pratap Sarnaik
Buldhana – Makarand Jadhav
Sindhudurg – Nitesh Rane
Akola – Akash Fundkar
Gondia – Babasaheb Patil
Kolhapur – Prakash Abitkar and the joint guardian minister – Madhuri Misal
Wardha – Pankaj Bhoyar
Parbhani – Meghna Bordikar
Guardian ministers play a vital role in managing the District Planning and Development Council (DPDC) funds. These funds are used for various development and beautification projects in the district.
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