Karnataka Council of Ministers

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The Karnataka Council of Ministers is the executive wing of Government of Karnataka and headed by Chief Minister of Karnataka, who is the head of government and leader of the state cabinet. The term of every executive wing is for 5 years. The council of ministers are assisted by department secretaries attached to each ministry who are from IAS Karnataka Cadre. The chief executive officer responsible for issuing orders on behalf of government is Chief Secretary to the state government.

According to Article 163 of the Constitution of India,

There shall be a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at the head to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his function, except in so far as he is by or under this Constitution required to exercise his functions or any of them in his discretion.

1. If any question arises whether any matter is or is not a matter as respects which the Governor is by or under this Constitution required to act in his discretion, the decision of the Governor in his discretion shall be final, and the validity of anything done by the Governor shall not be called in question on the ground that he ought or ought not to have acted in his discretion.
2. The question whether any, and if so what, advice was tendered by Ministers to the Governor shall not be inquired into in any court.

This means that the Ministers serve under the pleasure of the Governor and he/she may remove them, on the advice of the Chief Minister, whenever they want.

According to Article 164 of the Constitution of India,

The Chief Minister shall be appointed by the Governor and the other Ministers shall be appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister, and the Minister shall hold office during the pleasure of the Governor:
Provided that in the States of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, there shall be a Minister in charge of tribal welfare who may in addition be in charge of the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and backward classes or any other work.

1. The Council of Minister shall be collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly of the State.
2. Before a Minister enters upon his office, the Governor shall administer to him the oaths of office and of secrecy according to the forms set out for the purpose in the Third Schedule.
3. A Minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of the Legislature of the State shall at the expiration of that period cease to be a Minister.
4. The salaries and allowances of Ministers shall be such as the Legislature of the State may from time to time by law determine and, until the Legislature of the State so determines, shall be a specified in the Second Schedule.

Like any Indian state, Chief Ministers of Karnataka is the real head of the government and responsible for state administration. He is the leader of the parliamentary party in the legislature and heads the state cabinet. The current Chief Minister is Siddaramaiah.

As per the Constitution of India, all portfolios of state government is vested in Chief Minister, who distribute various portfolio to individual ministers whom he nominates to the State Governor. The state governor appoints individual ministers for various portfolios and departments as per advice of Chief Minister and together form the State Cabinet. As the original portfolios are vested with CM, who delegates to others upon his/her wish, actions of individual ministers are part of collective responsibility of the state cabinet and Chief Minister is responsible for actions of each minister. The state cabinet along with Chief Minister, prepares General policy and individual department policy, which will be guiding policy for day-to-day administration of each minister.

This is the current Cabinet of Karnataka headed by the Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah:^[1][2][3]

SI No.	Name	Constituency	Department	Party
1.	Siddaramaiah Chief Minister	Varuna	Finance Cabinet Affairs Personnel and Administrative Reforms Intelligence Information and Public Relation Other Departments not allocated to any minister	INC
2.	D. K. Shivakumar Deputy Chief Minister	Kanakapura	Major & Medium Irrigation Bengaluru City Development including BBMP, BDA, BWSSB, BMRDA, BMRCL	INC
3.	G. Parameshwara	Kortagere	Home (excluding Intelligence)	INC
4.	H. K. Patil	Gadag	Law Parliamentary Affairs Legislation Tourism	INC
5.	K. H. Muniyappa	Devanahalli	Food & Civil Supplies Consumer Affairs	INC
6.	K. J. George	Sarvagnanagar	Energy	INC
7.	M. B. Patil	Babaleshwar	Large & Medium Industries Infrastructure Development	INC
8.	Ramalinga Reddy	B.T.M Layout	Transport MUZRAI	INC
9.	Satish Jarkiholi	Yemkanmardi	Public works Department	INC
10.	Priyank Kharge	Chittapur	Rural Development Panchayati Raj IT & BT	INC
11.	B. Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan	Chamrajpet	Housing Waqf Minorities	INC
12.	Krishna Byre Gowda	Byatarayanapura	Revenue (excluding Muzrai)	INC
13.	Dinesh Gundu Rao	Gandhi Nagar	Health & Family Welfare	INC
14.	N. Chaluvaraya Swamy	Nagamangala	Agriculture	INC
15.	K. Venkatesh	Periyapatna	Animal Husbandry Sericulture	INC
16.	H. C. Mahadevappa	T. Narasipur	Social Welfare	INC
17.	Eshwara Khandre	Bhalki	Forest Ecology Environment	INC
18.	K. N. Rajanna	Madhugiri	Cooperation excluding Agricultural Marketing	INC
19.	Sharanabasappa Darshanapur	Shahapur	Small Scale Industries Public Enterprises	INC
20.	Shivanand Patil	Basavana Bagevadi	Textiles Sugarcane Development & Directorate of Sugar Agricultural Marketing	INC
21.	R. B. Timmapur	Mudhol	Excise	INC
22.	S. S. Mallikarjun	Davanagere North	Mines & Geology Horticulture	INC
23.	Shivaraj Tangadagi	Kanakagiri	Backward class Kannada & Culture	INC
24.	Sharan Prakash Patil	Sedam	Medical Education Skill Development	INC
25.	M. S. Vaidya	Bhatkal	Fisheries & Ports Inland Transport	INC
26.	Lakshmi Hebbalkar	Belgaum Rural	Women & Child Development Disabled & Senior Citizens Empowerment	INC
27.	Rahim Khan	Bidar	Municipal Administration Haj	INC
28.	D. Sudhakar	Hiriyur	Planning & Statistics	INC
29.	Santosh Lad	Kalghatgi	Labour	INC
30.	N. S. Boseraju	MLC	Minor Irrigation Science & Technology	INC
31.	Byrathi Suresh	Hebbal	Urban Development & Town Planning (including KUWSDB & KUIDFC) (excluding Bengaluru City Development)	INC
32.	Madhu Bangarappa	Sorab	Primary & Secondary Education	INC
33.	M. C. Sudhakar	Chintamani	Higher Education	INC
34.	B. Nagendra	Bellary Rural	Youth Services Sports ST Welfare	INC