Maharashtra Government Announces Guardian Ministers, Ajit Pawar Gets Pune And Beed Districts - Full List Here

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.

Full List of Maharashtra Guardian Ministers Here

1. Gadchiroli - Devendra Fadnavis 

2. Thane - Eknath Shinde  

3. Mumbai City - Eknath Shinde  

4. Pune - Ajit Pawar  

5. Beed - Ajit Pawar  

6. Nagpur - Chandrashekhar Bawankule  

7. Amravati Chandrashekhar Bawankule 

8. Ahmednagar - Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil 

9. Washim - Hasan Mushrif

10. Sangli - Chandrakant Patil 

11. Nashik - Girish Mahajan 

12. Palghar - Ganesh Naik 

13. Jalgaon - Gulabrao Patil 

14. Yavatmal - Sanjay Rathod 

15. Mumbai Suburban - Ashish Shelar and Co-Guardian Minister - Mangalprabhat Lodha  

16. Ratnagiri - Uday Samant  

17. Dhule - Jaykumar Rawal 

18. Jalna - Pankaja Munde 

19. Nanded - Atul Save 

20. Chandrapur - Ashok Uike  

21. Satara - Shambhuraj Desai 

22. Raigad - Aditi Tatkare 

23. Latur - Shivendraraje Bhosale  

24. Nandurbar - Manikrao Kokate 

25. Solapur - Jaykumar Gore 

26. Hingoli - Narhari Jirwal 

27. Bhandara - Sanjay Savkare 

28. Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar - Sanjay Shirsat 

29. Dharashiv - Pratap Sarnaik 

30. Buldhana - Makarand Jadhav 

31. Sindhudurg - Nitesh Rane  

32. Akola - Akash Fundkar  

33. Gondia - Babasaheb Patil  

34. Kolhapur - Prakash Abitkar and the joint guardian minister - Madhuri Misal 

35. Wardha - Pankaj Bhoyar  

36. 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.