The State administration made a major reshuffle in the responsibilities of 25 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and nine Provincial Civil Services (PCS) officers on Thursday.
Additional chief secretary Radha Raturi has been relieved of the charge of women empowerment and child development while secretariat administration has been added to her existing responsibilities. Principal secretary Manisha Panwar has been relieved of the post of chief project director of watershed management while her other responsibilities have remained unchanged. Secretary Bhupinder Kaur Aulakh has been relieved of sports/youth welfare and given the posts of secretary and chief project director of watershed management. Secretary R Meenakshi Sundaram has been given agriculture education, agriculture and agriculture marketing and horticulture in addition to his current responsibilities. Secretary D Senthil Pandiyan has been relieved of agriculture education, agriculture and agriculture marketing, horticulture, cane-sugar, Panchayati Raj, chief project director/project coordinator ILSP, project director UGVS and additional charge of project coordinator/CPD.
The secretary of tourism, culture, civil aviation and CEO of Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board and Uttarakhand Civil Aviation Development Authority, Dilip Jawalkar has been given the additional charge of Garhwal commissioner.
Chief electoral officer and secretary of election and finance, Sowjanya has been made the secretary of women empowerment and child development also while Rural Engineering Services and labour secretary Harbans Singh Chugh has also been made the secretary of cane-sugar. Secretary (in-charge) of mining, Brijesh Kumar Sant has been relieved of this charge and handed the responsibilities of secretary (in-charge) sports/youth welfare and director of sports and youth welfare. In addition to this existing responsibilities, secretary (in-charge) Ranjit Kumar Sinha has been given Panchayati Raj and the post of chief project director/project coordinator of ILSP, project director of UGVS and additional charge of project coordinator/CPD.
The Dehradun district magistrate SA Murugesan has been relieved of this charge and made secretary (in-charge) of disaster management, director of audit, project director- externally funded projects-2, additional CEO of State Disaster Management Authority, programme manager, PIU, public buildings, UDRP-World Bank, PM, PIU, construction of SDRF HQ, UDRP-II programme manager, PIU (road and bridge). C Ravishankar has been relieved of his responsibilities as SIIDCUL MD, additional secretary of tourism and culture, and additional CEO of UTDB. He has been made the Dehradun DM.
Nainital DM and additional commissioner Vinod Kumar Suman has been relieved of these responsibilities and made additional secretary of urban development, secretariat administration and director of urban development. Savin Bansal has been made the Nainital DM magistrate and relieved of the responsibilities of additional secretary of finance, public works, disaster management, director of audit and other tasks.
The Tehri DM Sonika has been relieved of this charge and made the MD of SIIDCUL, additional secretary of tourism, culture, additional CEO of UTDB and additional CEO of UCADA and PMU. Deependra Kumar Chaudhry has been made the Haridwar DM after being relieved of the responsibilities of excise commissioner, information director general and managing director of Uttarakhand sugar federation. Deepak Rawat has been relieved of his charge as Haridwar DM and made the Mela officer.
Additional secretary Chandresh Kumar Yadav has been relieved of the posts of urban development director and additional secretary, and made additional secretary of census, Hindi academy secretary and Bhasha Sansthan director. R Rajesh Kumar has been relieved of the posts of additional secretary of civil aviation, secretariat administration, MD of Uttarakhand transport corporation and ACEO of UCADA and PMU.
Champawat DM Ranvir Singh Chauhan has been relieved of this post and made the excise commissioner, additional secretary of transport and managing director of the transport corporation while additional secretary HC Semwal has been relieved of transport, his other tasks remaining unchanged. SN Pande has been made the Champawat DM while additional secretary Bal Mayank Mishra has been made member, judicial, Uttarakhand revenue board after being relieved of the posts of additional secretary, animal husbandry and fishery, and labour.
Himanshu Khurana has been relieved of the post of Kashipur municipal commissioner while retaining the charge of Udham Singh Nagar deputy collector. Among PCS officers, additional secretary to CM, horticulture revenue and mining, Meharban Singh Bisht has also been given the post of information DG. Banshidhar Tiwari has been made vice chairman of district level development authority of Udham Singh Nagar and Kashipur municipal commissioner.
DK Tiwari has been made additional secretary of animal husbandry and fishery, UN Pande has been given the responsibility of additional secretary labour and cooperatives registrar, PS Shah has been made additional secretary, secretariat administration and MD of Uttarakhand sugar federation, AK Pandey has been transferred form the post of Haridwar municipal commissioner and made joint chief administrator of Uttarakhand Housing and Urban Development Authority while US Rana has been made Haridwar municipal commissioner. AK Chanyal has been made the Chamoli deputy collector.
Among secretariat services officers, PS Rawat has been additional secretary of state estate and State estate officer in addition to his current tasks while additional secretary to CM and tribal directorate director SC Joshi has been made additional secretary, language also.