1 November 2026
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Uttarakhand: 24 IAS And 22 PCS Officers Transferred, IAS Sachin Kurve Will Be New Secretary Of Tourism Department

IAS Kurve replaced Dilip Jawalkar, who has been made the secretary of the finance department. It was probably the most significant change as Mr Kurve had reportedly some differences with state minister Rekha Arya over the transfer of employees.
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In a major bureaucratic reshuffle in Uttrakhand, Dhami government has transferred 24 IAS officer and 22 PCS level officers. In this large scale transfer and postings, many officers have been reshuffled. IAS officer Sachin Kurve has been was made the new secretary of the tourism department. Kurve replaced Dilip Jawalkar, who has been made the secretary of the finance department. It was probably the most significant change as Mr Kurve had reportedly some differences with state minister Rekha Arya over the transfer of employees.

While IAS officer Sonika was made the chief executive officer of Smart City Dehradun. Overall, changes in the working areas of 24 IAS officers, 22 PCS officers and four Secretariat service cadre officers is done.

Meanwhile, Jugal Kishore Pant, who was working as Udham Singh Nagar district magistrate so far, was appointed as the managing director of Terai Beej Vikas Nigam.

Separately, the charge of managing director of SIDCUL (State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand Limited) was withdrawn from Ranveer Singh Chauhan and given to Rohit Meena, and the charge of managing director of Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam was taken from Swati Bhadoria and given to Bansidhar Tiwari.

Also, the charge of district magistrate Tehri Garhwal was withdrawn from Iva Ashish Srivastava and given to Saurabh Garhwar. Besides, Reena Joshi was made the new district magistrate of Bageshwar. Further, IAS officer Vineet Kumar was made the new additional secretary of the public works department and the forest department, and BVRC Purshottam was given the additional charge of the secretary of the rural development department.

IAS Nitin Singh Bhadoria, who was working as Additional Secretary Drinking Water Panchayati Raj, has been given the respnsibility of Additional Secretary Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Milk and Milk Development.

IAS Smt Swati S Bhadoria has been given the charge of Additional Secretary Language, Secretary, Hindi Academy and Director Language Institute. He was also working as Managing Director GMVN.

IAS Vineet Kumar was removed from the post of District Magistrate Bageshwar, got the responsibility of Additional Secretary, Public Works and Forests.

IAS Smt. Reena Joshi got the responsibility of District Officer Bageshwar.

IAS Rohit Meena got the new responsibility of CMD SIDCUL from the post of Additional Secretary Finance.

IS Smt. Nitika Khandelwal was removed from the post of CDO Dehradun, got new responsibility of Additional Secretary, Rural Development.

IS Saurabh Gaharwal was removed from the post of CDO Haridwar, DM Tehri got new responsibility.

S Ms. Namami Bansal removed from CDO Tehri, got new responsibility of Additional Secretary Technical Education.

IAS Prateek Jain was removed from the post of Deputy Collector Nainital, new responsibility of CDO Haridwar.

IAS Vishal Mishra was given additional charge of CDO Udham Singh Nagar, Municipal Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Rudrapur.

IAS Ms. Apoorva Pandey was removed from the post of Joint Magistrate Dehradun, Chief Development Officer Pauri got new responsibility.

IAS Manish Kumar was removed from the post of Deputy Collector Dehradun, CDO Tehri got new responsibility.

PCS officer Jharna Kamthan got new responsibility of CDO Dehradun.

PCS officer Prashant Kumar Arya removed the responsibility of CDO Pauri, Additional Secretary got new responsibility for higher education.

The responsibility of MD Sidcul, Additional Secretary Language, Secretary Hindi Academy, Director Language Institute was removed from Secretary Ranveer Singh Chauhan.


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