D K Shivakumar retained multiple key portfolios including Finance, Cabinet Affairs, Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Intelligence, Information, Law and Justice, Parliamentary Affairs and Legislation, Agriculture Marketing, Town and Country Planning, and all Urban Local Bodies under BDA and BMRDA, along with unallotted portfolios. Specific allocations were made to other ministers such as U T Khader for Minority Welfare, Haj and Wakf, and Health and Family Welfare; R Ramalinga Reddy for Forest, Ecology and Environment; and others for Social Welfare, Housing, Cooperation, and additional departments. Some allocations were reported by only one source.