PATNA, April 16 -- Chief minister Samrat Choudhary will have 29 ministerial portfolios, including crucial ones like home and general administration department, according to the portfolio allocation notified on Wednesday. Other key portfolios that he has held are cabinet secretariat, vigilance, revenue and land reforms, health, agriculture, urban development and housing, industries, road construction, tourism, art and culture and sports. The list also covers disaster management, information technology, panchayati raj, and several welfare departments ranging from backward classes to SC/ST welfare. Deputy chief minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary has been given 10 departments, including water resources, parliamentary affairs, information and public relations, building construction, minority welfare, education, science technology and technical education, rural development, transport, and higher education. His colleague, deputy CM Bijendra Prasad Yadav, has received eight departments: energy, planning and development, excise and prohibition, finance, commercial taxes, social welfare, food and consumer protection and rural works. The notification, issued under the orders of the Bihar Governor, cited constitutional provisions and rules of business. It ends with a standard line that any department not specifically allotted to anyone remains with the chief minister. The expansion of the Bihar cabinet, according to insiders, is likely to take place immediately after the assembly elections in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. The expansion may see many of the portfolios held by CM and his deputies to be distributed among newly inducted cabinet colleagues....