According to the government order issued on Thursday,Yediyurappa will be in charge of Bengaluru urban districtwhereas his Deputy Chief Ministers Dr C N Ashwath Narayan,Laxman Savadi and Govind Karjol will be in charge ofRamanagara, Raichur and Bagalkote.
In all, 25 ministers including the Chief Minister havebeen assigned one district each.
However, the ministers who have been excluded fromdistrict level responsibilities are Ramesh Jarkiholi, ShrimantPatil and K Gopalaiah.
According to sources in BJP, the districtresponsibilities were revamped following reports that manyministers did not visit their respective districts to overseethe COVID-19 related relief work despite the increasing numberof cases in the state.
The Chief Minister had to confront questions on the issueduring a recent media interaction, where he had promised tostrengthen the relief work monitoring system at theministerial level. GMSROH ROH