New Delhi:
Several top bureaucrats of the Delhi government, including two additional chief secretaries and one principal secretaries, were shifted to other states and center areas in a major reshuffle of Agmut Cadre by the Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday.
Ashish Chandra Verma, an IAS officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre in 1994, the cadre serving as Additional Chief Secretary of Finance and Revenue Departments, Government of Delhi, was transferred to Jammu and Kashmir.
Additional Chief Secretary, Environment and Forest, Anil Kumar Singh were also shifted to Jammu and Kashmir, while Sudhir Kumar, Principal Secretary, Vigilance Department, was transferred to Mizoram. Singh is a 1995 batch officer and Kumar is a 1999 batch officer.
The special secretary of the house, 2009 batch KM UPPU, and 2008 batch officer, Special Secretary of Transport Sachin Shinde were transferred to Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar respectively.
Meanwhile, the 2005 batch officer, Vijay Kumar Bidhuri, who served as a divisional commissioner in Kashmir, was shifted to Delhi, while 2000 batch officers, Dilraj Kaur, would return to the national capital, where he had previously worked in various capabilities, which were after transfer from Andaman and Nicobar.
Other Agmut Cadre IAS officers transferred from Delhi included Chanchal Yadav, Vinod Kavale – both 2008 batch officers – and Naveen SL, 2012 batch officers.
According to the reshuffle, the Delhi government carried out the interdaptal transfer and posting of 42 Senior AgMut and Danics CADRE officers.
The 1992 batch officer, Bipul Pathak, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) was given additional charge of ACS Environment and Forest, holding the charge of industries. The 1993 batch officer, Prashant Goyal, who was the ACS-cum-commissioner of transport, will now be the Additional Chief Secretary of Urban Development, said that an order issued by the service department.
1994 batch officer, Naveen Kumar Chaudhary, who was the ACS of irrigation and flood control and the new ACS of the General Administration Department Public Works Department. A 1996 batch will be the new Principal Secretary of the Principal Secretary of the house and the principal secretary of the house.
Nikhil Kumar of the 2002 batch will be the new health secretary and will also conduct additional charge of the IT secretary, while Neeraj Semwal of the 2003 batch, who is waiting for the posting, will conduct the charge of Secretary Revenue-cum-Bhajan Commissioner.
2008 batch officer Niharika Rai, who was the Secretary of Finance, will now be the secretary of the transport-cum-commissioner, while the Chief Minister of the 2011 batch, Ravi Jha’s Special Secretary, will be the Excise Commissioner of the Government of Delhi, the order.
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