IAS rejig: Tainted LDA VC waitlisted
Nine commissioners, seven DMs, LDA VC among those shunted
The UP government on Tuesday shunted out tainted vice chairman of Lucknow Development Authority Satyendra Singh while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle involving 44 IAS officers. Singh, who is mired in a controversy over alleged corruption in LDA, has been put on wait list. Additional chief secretary and chairman of UPPPCL Sanjay Aggarwal has been divested of his charge as chairman of Greater Noida and YEIDA. Resident commissioner of UP in New Delhi Dr Prabhat Kumar will take Aggarwal’s place. Additional chief electoral officer Anil Garg will be the new commissioner of Lucknow while DM, Basti, Prabhu Narain Singh will replace the Satyendra Singh in LDA.
LUCKNOW : In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Yogi Adityanath government shifted on Tuesday 44 IAS officers, including nine commissioners and seven district magistrates.
Additional chief secretary and chairman of UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) Sanjay Aggarwal has been divested of his charge as chairman of Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority.
Resident commissioner of UP in New Delhi Dr Prabhat Kumar has been made divisional commissioner of Meerut with additional charge of chairman of Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority.
Unlike his predecessors, the CM has been slow on overhauling the administrative setup he inherited from the previous regime.
His first major bureaucratic reshuffle transferring 20 IAS officers came on April 12, almost three weeks after he took over the reins of the state. Almost all officers serving in the CM secretariat were given the marching orders. But later Yogi reinstated Rigzin Samphel as his special secretary, who held the same post under Akhilesh Yadav regime.
Tuesday’s mass transfers come as an indication that CM Yogi, who completes one month in office on Wednesday, has started making key changes to fine tune the administrative set up to ensure delivery of his government schemes.
Anil Garg, who was serving as additional chief electoral officer, was asked to take over as the new commissioner of Lucknow Division.
Former commissioner Bhuvnesh Kumar was transferred on April 12 and has been waitlisted. Another important appointment was that of Prabhu Narain Singh, DM Basti, as the new vice chairman of the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA), replacing Satyendra Singh Yadav, who has been put on waiting list.
Rajiv Rautela, who was awaiting posting, has been made the district magistrate of Gorakhpur, the home town of chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
He replaces Sandhya Tiwari, who has now been posted as special secretary Secondary Education. Additional chief secretary, medical education, sports and youth welfare Anita Bhatnagar Jain has been divested of her charge of sports and youth welfare which now goes to Kanpur commissioner Iftekharuddin along with rural engineering department. PK Mohanti will be new commissioner of Kanpur.
Rajan Shukla has been appointed commissioner Agra, Ashish Goel, commissioner Allahabad, K Ram Mohan Rao commissioner Agra, Amit Gupta, commissioner Jhansi, Alok Kumar (III) takes over as commissioner Chitrakoot from Murli Manohar Lal, who goes as secretary, medical education and family welfare.
Pramnshu, commissioner Bareilly, has been moved as secretary, Panchayat Raj. Himanshu Kumar has been asked to take over as commissioner Devipatan, Gonda from Sudhir Kumar Dixit, who goes as secretary, medical education department.
Secretary and additional housing commissioner, Housing Board, Rudra Pratap Singh has been put on wait list. Commissioner revenue Dheeraj Sahu has been appointed housing commissioner. Mirzapur DM Kanchan Verma will be the new vice-chairman of the Ghaziabad Development Authority.
Secretary rural development and director Mandi Parishad Ashish Kumar Goel has been made divisional commissioner of Allahabad replacing Rajan Shukla, who will be principal secretary Civil Defence and Political Pension.
Director administration (Medical and Health) Arvind Kumar Singh becomes DM Basti. Estate officer Brijraj Singh Yadav has been made special secretary Rural Development while special secretary Irrigation Yogesh Kumar Shukla has been made secretary and estate officer. Leena Jauhari takes over as commissioner and secretary, UP Revenue Board. DM Sant Kabir Nagar, Ramakant Pandey has been shifted as special secretary, urban development, employment and poverty alleviation.
The state government appointed DM Etah Vijay Kiran Anand as the new mission director of Swach Bharat Mission in place of Raj Mani Yadav, who would, however, continue as special secretary, Panchayat Raj Department.
Amit Kishore, special secretary in election commission, has been appointed the new DM of Etah.
Pulit Khare, CDO Varanasi has been made vice chairman Varanasi Development Authority. Shyam Narain Tripathi, member judicial, revenue board, has been relieved of his charge and will continue as chief executive officer of Kashi Vishwanath Mandir, Varanasi.
Narendra Kumar Singh takes over as DM Shahjahanpur in place of Karn Singh Chauhan, who goes as special secretary to revenue board. Narendra Shankar Pandey becomes DM Jalaun in place of Sandip Kaur, who has been shifted as special secretary to Agriculture Production Commissioner branch.