India, May 14 -- Two days after taking oath for a second consecutive term, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday allocated portfolios to the four ministers who were sworn in along with him in the new cabinet.

The allocation was announced through a note issued by Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya. "I am in receipt of your letter...proposing the allotment of portfolios to the members of the council of ministers... I approve the proposal as suggested by you," the note stated.

Former Union minister Rameshwar Teli, the new entrant in the cabinet who belongs to the tea-tribe community, has been assigned the departments of transformation and development, labour welfare, and tea-tribes and Adivasi welfare.

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