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26 IAS Transferred in Gujarat, New Heads Appointed at Important Positions

Additional Chief Secretary Pankaj Kumar has been given full charge of the home department. Many officers have also been promoted which includes Municipal Commissioners of Surat and Jamnagar.
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The Gujarat government issued a transfer order of 26 IAS officers on Wednesday, 10 June. This includes various IAS officers who have been appointed as the head of important departments in the state such as health and family welfare, energy & petrochemicals, and industries & mines.

The General Administration Department (GAD) issued a notification which includes 1986 batch IAS Pankaj Kumar who has now been given full charge of the home department — a post that he was holding as an additional charge till now. He was currently posted as the Additional Chief Secretary. Additional Chief Secretary GAD (personnel), Kamal Dayani has been transferred in place of Kumar in the revenue department.

Batchmate of Kumar, Vipul Mittra, has been posted to the panchayats, rural housing and rural development department. He was currently posted as Additional chief secretary, labour and employment department. His colleague Dr Rajiv Kumar Gupta has been transferred as additional chief secretary forests and environment department to the industries and mines department.

Manoj Aggarwal, additional chief secretary, social justice and empowerment department, has been posted to the health and family welfare department.

IAS officer AK Rakesh presently additional chief secretary, rural development department, has replaced Dayani as ACS, GAD (personnel). Whereas, Sunaina Tomar, additional chief secretary, energy and petrochemicals, has been moved out to the social justice and empowerment department.

Tomar has been replaced by Mamta Verma who is currently holding the charge of Principal Secretary, tourism and civil aviation.

Hareet Shukla, Secretary of Science, and Technology Department will replace Mamta Verma in the Tourism Department and Vijay Nehra, the commissioner of rural development, will replace Hareet Shukla in the Science and Technology Department.

Roopwant Singh, an IAS officer from 2003 batch and secretary, finance department (expenditure) is back as Commissioner of Geology and Mining. He will hold the additional post of managing director, GMDC.

Other important transfers include those of P Swaroop, muncipal commissioner of Vadodara Municipal Corporation, who has been appointed as Commissioner of Land Reforms in the revenue department.

The officers who have been promoted are Banchha Nidhi Pani, Municipal Commissioner of Surat, Ranjeeth Kumar J, Commissioner, MSME, and Shailini Agrawal, collector of Vadodara. Agarwal has been appointed as the new municipal commissioner of Vadodara. Similarly, SA Patel, municipal commissioner of Jamnagar, has been promoted and appointed as commissioner of mid-day meals in Gandhinagar.


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