On Saturday, the Government of Gujarat promoted 23 IAS officers from three batches – 1996, 2008, and 2017. However, the state government avoided transfers which are expected to take place after the local body elections in February, this year.
The 1996 batch officers who have been promoted from Secretary to Principal Secretary rank are Mona Kandhar, Minister (Commerce), Embassy of India, Japan, T Natarajan, senior advisor to ED, IMF, Washington DC, Rajeev Topno, senior advisor to ED, World Bank, Washington DC, Mamta Verma, Secretary, Tourism, Civil Aviation, and Mukesh Kumar, Municipal Commissioner, Ahmedabad.
The 2008 batch officers were promoted to selection grade and the 2017 batch officers have been promoted to senior-time scale.
