Acting on the election commission’s instruction to transfer all the officials who have completed three years in one place or worked in the same place during the last election or who belong to the same district where they were posted, the State Government has transferred seven IAS and 10 IPS officers along with 31 PCS officers on Wednesday. Sources said more such transfers are awaited.
Additional secretary Secretariat Administration & Suraj, Chandresh Kumar has been transferred as Udham Singh Nagar district magistrate, a post that CDO Aashish Joshi kept holding since the demise of former DM Akshat Gupta. Additional secretary Panchayati Raj, Medical Education & Director Panchayati Raj, Sushil Kumar has been transferred as Bageshwar DM while Pithorgarh DM Harish Chandra Semwal has been transferred as additional secretary Social Welfare and also as managing director, Multipurpose Finance Development Corporation (MFDC), Uttarkahand. Bageshwar DM Bhupal Singh Manral has been transferred as municipal commissioner, Dehradun while additional secretary urban development, director local Bodies, director State Urban Development Agency (SUDA) and municipal commissioner Dehradun Nitin Bhadoria has been transferred as Pithoragarh DM. This aside, the additional secretary Personnel, Revenue, Power, Forest & Environment, director Sports & Youth welfare, Secretariat Training Institute Dehradun and MD MFDC Jyoti Neeraj Khairwal has been relieved from MD MFDC while deputy collector Dehradun Swati S Bhadoria has been transferred as chief executive officer, Border Area Development Programme, Pithoragarh.