37 DMs shifted in major reshuffle, Kaushal Raj gets Lucknow
In its first major reshuffle, the state government shifted 84 IAS, including 37 district magistrates, and 54 IPS officers on Wednesday.
Kaushal Raj Sharma DM (Kanpur City) takes over as new DM of Lucknow from GS Priyadarshi, who becomes DM, Muzaffarnagar. Surendra Singh, DM Bareilly, has been shifted in the same capacity to Kanpur City.
Among the senior officers, secretary to chief minister Mritunjay Kumar Narain has been relieved of his charge of commissioner, excise, director, culture and secretary, Sanskriti. Dr Adarsh Singh, DM Pratapgarh has been appointed special secretary to CM. Dheeraj Sahu, housing commissioner, gets the additional charge of excise commissioner. Principle secretary, agriculture, Rajnish Gupta has been given additional charge of Director, Mandi Parishad. Arvind Kumar, principle secretary, Revenue and Cooperatives, has been relieved of additional charge of secretary cooperatives. Additional chief secretary, Public Enterprises, Hari Raj Kishore has been given charge of cooperatives. Additional chief secretary, Mining, RP Singh has been given additional charge of basic education. Kamran Rizvi, DG, State Nutrition Mission and Commissioner Rural Development and secretary, Appointments, has been removed from the post of commissioner rural development. Secretary, Women welfare, Neena Sharma has been made commissioner rural development. Member (Judicial) Revenue, Kanak Tripathi has been appointed special secretary, irrigation, water resources.
Karn Singh Chauhan, special secretary, revenue goes as DM Jhansi. Shamim Ahmed Khan, DM Etawah, has been shifted as special secretary to urban development department. Selva Kumar J, DM Fatehpur becomes DM Etawah. Madanpal, additional commissioner rural development, is the new DM Fatehpur. Chandrapal Singh DM Mainpuri has been shifted as special secretary, confidential department. Mission Director State Livelihood Mission Yashwant Rai becomes new DM Mainpuri. Nitin Bansal becomes mission director State Livelihood Mission.
CDO Faizabad Arvind Malappa Bangari becomes DM Mathura. Jagdish, DM Kannauj, becomes special secretary in Food Security and Drugs Administration. Jagdish Prasad, special secretary, Sanskriti takes over as DM Kannauj. Anjnai Kumar Singh DM Bulandshahr has been shifted as additional commissioner, commercial tax. Roshan Jacob, DM Barabanki, goes to Bulandshahr in the same capacity. Akhilesh Tiwari is DM Barabanki. Suresh Kumar Singh, DM Bhadoi, becomes CEO of UP Rural Road Authority. Vishakh G DM Hamirpur has been shifted as DM Bhadoi. CDO Gorakhpur Mannan Akhtar has been sent to Hamirpur as DM. Dr Sharad Kumar Singh, special secretary, medical education takes over as DM Pratapgarh.
Prakash Bindu DM Farrukhabad shifted as special secretary, Transport. Ravindra Kumar II is DM Farrukhabad. DM Baghpat Hriday Shankar Tiwari goes as CEO national helath insurance scheme, while Bhawani Singh Khangresh, additional commissioner MNRGES, takes over as DM Baghpat. Anubhav Kumar Jha, DM Rae Bareli becomes additional commissioner MNREGA. Sri Abhay, who was wait-listed takes over as DM Rae Bareli. Shambhu Kumar DM Kushi Nagar goes to higher education as special secretary and registrar of RML University.
Andra Wamsi, CDO Allahabad becomes DM Kushi Nagar. Abrar Ahmed DM Deoria takes over as special secretary, technical education. Sujit Kumar DM Shamli goes to Deoria in the same capacity. Agra Municipal Commissioner Indra Vikram Singh becomes DM Shamli. Anil Dhingra, DM Hapur becomes special secretary, finance. Krishna Karunesh becomes DM Hapur. DM Pilibhit Masoom Ali Sarwar has been shifted to child and nutrition as special secretary. Sheetal Verma is DM Pilibhit. Shubra Saxena, DM Amroha becomes DM Hardoi in place of Vivek Varshney. Navneet Singh Chahal CDO Jhansi becomes DM Amroha, Amrit Tripathi, DM Sitapur, has been appointed special secretary, national integration. Sarika Mohan takes over as DM Sitapur. Nidhi Kesarvani, DM Ghaziabad has been shifted as special secretary, Science and Technology.
Minnisti S becomes DM Ghaziabad. NP Singh, DM GB Nagar, takes over as DM Saharanpur. Brijesh Narain Singh is the new DM GB Nagar. Anita Srivastava takes over as DM Badaun from Pawan Kumar. DM Moradabad Zubair Bin Sagheer has been shifted as special secretary to APC Branch. VC Hapur Development Authority, Rakesh Kumar Singh III takes over as DM Moradabad, Dinesh Kumar Singh III DM Muzaffarnagar shifted as special secretary, Home. Pinky Jovail takes over as DM Bareilly. Raj Shekhar, DM Rampur, becomes special secretary, backward welfare department. Shiv Sahai Awasthi becomes DM Rampur. Hemant Kumar is DM Chandauli. NC Shukla DM Mau shifted as additional director NHM. Kunal Silku is DM Siddhartnagar, Deepak Meena, DM Srawasti, Amit Kumar Singh, DM Hathras, Rakesh Kumar Mishra DM Balrampur.