Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has allocated portfolios to the state’s Cabinet Ministers, according to a press release issued by the Governor’s office on Wednesday. Shivakumar will retain Finance, Cabinet Affairs, Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Intelligence, Information, Law, Justice and Human Rights, Parliamentary Affairs, Legislation, Agriculture Marketing, and portfolios related to urban local bodies. Zameer Ahmed Khan has been assigned Housing, while Ramalinga Reddy gets Forest, Ecology and Environment. Other key allocations include Social Welfare to KH Muniyappa and Education portfolios to Madhu Bangarappa and Basavaraj Raya Reddy in Karnataka. Cabinet PortfoliosThe portfolio allocation was issued by R. Prabhu Shankar, Special Secretary to the Governor, in a press release dated August 12.