New Delhi

Twenty-one AAP MLAs appointed as parliamentary secretaries to Delhi ministers were today administered the oath of office by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at a function held at Delhi Secretariat.

According to an official, the parliamentary secretaries will have their own offices.

While appointing these party MLAs as parliamentary secretaries in March, the AAP government had said that they would not receive any remuneration or perks of any kind from the government – meaning no burden on exchequer.

The parliamentary secretaries, however, may use government transport for official purposes and space in the minister’s office would be provided to them to facilitate their work.

Among the parliamentary secretaries who have been appointed by CM are Praveen Kumar to education minister, Sharad Kumar to Revenue Minister, Adarsh Shastri to Information and Technology Minister, Madan Lal to Vigilance Minister, Charan Goel to Finance Minister, Sanjeev Jha to Transport Minister, Sarita Singh to Employment Minister, Naresh Yadav to Labour Minister, Jarnail Singh to Minister of Development, Rajesh Gupta to Health Minister and Rajesh Rishi to Health Minister.

Apart from them, MLAs – Anil Kumar Bajpai has been parliamentary secretary to Health Minister followed by Som Dutt to Industries Minister, Avtar Singh Kalka to Minister of Gurudwara elections, Vijender Garg Vijay to Minister of PWD, Jarnail Singh to Minister of Power, Kailash Gahlot to Minister of Law, Alka Lamba to Minister of Tourism, Manoj Kumar to Minister of Food and Civil Supplies, Nitin Tyagi to Minister of Women and Child and Social Welfare and Sukhvir Singh to Minister of Languages and Welfare of SC/ST/OBC.

– Inputs from PTI