In a minor reshuffle in West Bengal the state Home secretary BP Gopalika has been given the additional charge of Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) of the Parliamentary Affairs department. While a 1991 batch officer Manoj Pant who is posted as state Finance Secretary has been given the additional charge of Principal Secretary of Planning and Statistics department. Similarly, Managing Director of the West Bengal State Beverages Corporation Uma Shankar S has been brought back as the state Excise Commissioner.
Besides that 13 IAS officer probationers including Ananya Singh, Ashish Kumar, Manjeet Kumar Yadav, Yogesh Ashokrao Patil, Raunak Agarwal, Saurav Pandey, Utkarsh Singh and Vandavasi Teja Deepak have been posted in Howrah, Purulia, Cooch Behar, North Dinajpur, Bankura, South Dinajpur, Murshidabad and Malda respectively Assistant Magistrates.