A gazette on distribution of portfolios for ministers of the all-party "polls-time" interim cabinet will be released on Thursday, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The premier made the disclosure while delivering her speech in the 19th session of the 9th parliament on Wednesday evening.
Earlier on Monday, six new ministers and two state ministers took oath to be the part of the "polls-time" cabinet.
They are Awami League Advisory Council Members Tofail Ahmed and Amir Hossain Amu, Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon, Jatiya Party Presidium Members Rawshan Ershad and Anisul Islam Mahmud and Secretary General ABM Ruhul Amin Hawladar.
Jatiya Party Presidium Members Mojibul Haque Chunnu and Salma Islam were sworn in as state ministers while Jatiya Party Presidium Member Ziauddin Bablu was made adviser with the status of a minister.
Cabinet Secretary Musharraf Hossain said Bablu had been selected as a minister of the polls-time government earlier, but the premier had changed her decision later and made him her adviser as he was not an MP.
President Abdul Hamid administrated the swearing in ceremony. Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, Deputy Leader of parliament Sajeda Chowdhury, Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Agriculture Minister Motia Chowdhury, Jute and Textiles Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui, Information and Communication Technology Minister Mostafa Faruque Mohammad were among the existing cabinet members who attended the ceremony.
Earlier, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said new ministers and state ministers who took oath on Monday and the newly appointed adviser to the prime minister will get their portfolios on Tuesday.
The Cabinet Division will issue an order distributing the portfolios of the new ministers and advisers, while the offices of the existing ministers who will continue with the polls-time government would be reshuffled.
However, the portfolios of the ministers were not distributed on Tuesday as the prime minister was yet to decide on areas of their jurisdiction.
High officials of the cabinet division were waiting for the decision to come from the prime minister’s office (PMO) but until 8.30pm on Tuesday they did not get any signal.
