22 October 2026
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Major Reshuffle Among IAS and IPS Officers in West Bengal

Several IAS and IPS officer in West Bengal have been transferred in a major reshuffle. This also includes the District Magistrate of Birbhum district.
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The state government on Wednesday issued a transfer order of several IAS and IPS officers across the state.

This included Birbhum’s District Magistrate DP Karnam who has been replaced by IAS officer Bidhan Chandra Ray. Karnam has now been appointed as Director of the MSME directorate with additional charge of Managing Director (MD) of Biswa Bangla Corporation.

Karnam has replaced Nikhil Nirmal, who will now hold the charge of Director Textiles. Dhaval Jain has once again appointed as the Commissioner of Howrah Municipal Corporation and will also hold the additional charge of Howrah’s Additional District Magistrate (ADM). He was posted as MD of Paschimbanga Agri Marketing Corporation.

Jain replaced Abhishek Tiwari, who became the Joint Secretary of the state Health Department. Partha Ghosh, who was DM Nadia, became the MD of Paschimbanga Agri Marketing Corporation. At the same time, Vishal Garg, who was Inspector General of Police (IGP) of North Bengal, has been brought back to the Kolkata Police as its Additional Commissioner of Police. Shrihari Pandey, who was in compulsory waiting, has been made Deputy Commissioner (DC) of the North Zone of Barrackpore Police Commissionerate.

Devendra Prakash Singh, who was CP Siliguri Police Commissionerate, became the IGP North Bengal. Sabyasachi Raman Mishra, who was Joint CP of Siliguri Police Commissionerate became the DIG CIF. Anjali Singh, who was SRP Siliguri, becomes CO of State Armed Police’s Second Battalion. Pradeep Kumar Yadav has been given the charge of SP of the Special Task Force (STF) of the state police while Dhritiman Sarkar will continue as DC of the Kolkata Police’s Combat Battalion.


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