Rai, who recently underwent a surgery and is currently undergoing physiotherapy at the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, had earlier met Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and requested that he be relieved of his responsibilities.
Delhi’s PWD and Health Minister Satyendar Jain has been asked to take charge of the Transport Department.
Jain, who is known to be close to Kejriwal, already holds key portfolios of PWD, health, power and home. The departments left with Rai now include labour, irrigation and flood control, general administration department (GAD), development and employment.
“The Lieutenant Governor of National Capital Territory of Delhi with Chief Minister of National Capital Territory of Delhi is pleased to allocate portfolio of Transport Department to Satyendar Jain,” a notification issued by GAD said on Monday.
Jain had temporarily taken care of the transport department for about 20 days when Rai had gone under a surgery to get a bullet removed from his neck and then physiotherapy treatment in Hyderabad.
Rai on Monday said he had requested the Chief Minister to relieve him from the Transport Department portfolio as it had a very heavy workload.
The two phases of the odd-even scheme were implemented under the leadership of Rai as Transport Department was involved in the execution of the road-rationing plan on the ground.
Last month, he had announced premium bus service scheme to encourage the car users to leave their vehicles and use public transport.
Rai had said on Monday that he was “ready to go to jail” if corruption was proven against him in the bus service scheme.
The scheme came under scanner of the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) as Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung had refused to give his go-ahead to the scheme.