Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

34 IPS, 4 IAS and 93 RAS officers shifted

- HT Correspond­ent htraj@hindustant­imes.com

JAIPUR THE LAST MAJOR BUREAUCRAT­IC RESHUFFLE WAS DONE ON JULY 19 WHEN 26 DISTRICTS GOT NEW POLICE CHIEFS AND TWO DISTRICTS, NEW COLLECTORS

: The state government on Thursday transferre­d 34 IPS officers and posted new inspector general of police (IGs) at all the seven police ranges of the state. The police commission­er of Jodhpur was also changed. In other lists, four IAS officers and 93 RAS officers were also transferre­d.

The last major bureaucrat­ic reshuffle was done on July 19 when 26 districts got new police chiefs and two districts, new collectors.

In Thursday’s list, SPs of three districts – Jhunjhunu, Sikar and Barmer – were changed again. The IGs of all the seven police ranges have been changed.

Anand Kumar Srivastava will be the new IG of Kota Range, Malini Agrawal of Bharatpur Range, Biju George Joseph of Ajmer Range, Dinesh MN of Bikaner Range, Vishal Bansal of Udaipur Range and VK Singh of Jaipur Range. In Jodhpur police range, the government posted a deputy inspector general (DIG) of police – HG Raghavendr­a Suhasaa. Alok Kumar Vashistha will be the new police commission­er of Jodhpur.

The list of IPS officers announced on Thursday also posted four officers who were promoted from IG to ADG rank couple of months before but weren’t posted. Hemant Priyadarsh­y has been posted as ADG (state crime records bureau), Govind Gupta as ADG (vigilance), Sunil Dutt as ADG (telecommun­ications and technical) and Amrit Kalash as ADG (antihuman traffickin­g).

Rajeev Kumar Sharma, who was ADG (headquarte­rs), was posted as ADG (economic offences and cybercrime) in Thursday’s list. On Friday, he was changed again to be the new ADG (reorganiza­tion and rules). Similarly, Barhat Rahul Manhardan, who was made the new DCP of Jaipur (East) on July 19, was changed again to be the commandant of the 3rd battalion of Rajasthan Armed Constabula­ry (RAC).

Rajendra Prasad Goyal will be the new SP of Jhunjhunu, Pradeep Mohan Sharma of Sikar and Manish Agarwal of Barmer. In the July 19 list, these districts respective­ly got Deshmukh Paris Anil, Gaurav Yadav and Sharad Chowdhary.

In the IAS transfers, Ravi Jain was transferre­d for the fourth time in four days. He was commission­er of Jaipur Municipal Corporatio­n and transferre­d as director (agricultur­e) on July 19. On July 22, he was changed again and posted as commission­er, school education. On July 26, he swapped places with Dr Rajesh Sharma, and became the new commission­er of the Directorat­e of Informatio­n and Public Relations (DIPR).

In other developmen­ts, 93 RAS officers were also shifted on Thursday.

 ?? HT PHOTO ?? CM Vasundhara Raje at the Rajasthan Digifest20­18 valedictor­y and prize distributi­on function in Bikaner on Friday.
HT PHOTO CM Vasundhara Raje at the Rajasthan Digifest20­18 valedictor­y and prize distributi­on function in Bikaner on Friday.

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