A couple of weeks after his appointment as secretary of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, UP cadre IAS officer Kaushal Raj Sharma on Tuesday, were appointed as the Secretary to the Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.
Sharma, a 2006 batch officer, was earlier posted as District Magistrate (DM) and Divisional Commissioner of Varanasi, a Lok Sabha seat being represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
According to the sources, the Home Ministry has given special approval to send Sharma on central deputation to AGMUT Cadre for three years. This transfer is being seen as a strategic move because the Delhi government needs an experienced and efficient administrator. His appointment will also ensure a kind of monitoring of developmental projects in the national capital.
While serving as District Magistrate and Divisional Commissioner in Varanasi, he gave new direction to many development projects and took the city to new heights in the field of cleanliness, infrastructure and tourism.
Sources said that Sharma enjoys a good reputation with the PMO as he handled many ambitious projects in the PM’s constituency.
A week after Rekha Gupta’s oath ceremony, the Delhi government had undertaken a bureaucratic reshuffle, transferring five IAS officers of the AGMUT cadre. The Chief Minister’s office had received one Secretary and two Special Secretaries as part of the changes.
According to the order released by the Services Department dated February 27, the Lieutenant Governor posted Madhu Rani Teotia (IAS, 2008) as Secretary to the Chief Minister, while Sandeep Kumar Singh (IAS, 2011) and Ravi Jha (IAS, 2011) have been designated as Special Secretaries to the CM.
Meanwhile on Monday, the MHA had transferred 11 AGMUT Cadre IAS officers. Gurpal Singh, 2014 batch officer was transferred from Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir, Mohammed Ahsan Abid, 2014 batch IAS officer was transferred from Delhi to Puducherry, Priytarshny P, 2014 batch officer was transferred from Puducherry to Arunachal Pradesh.
Other officers reshuffled include, Rajesh Kumar, 2014 batch officer from Delhi to Arunachal Pradesh, Sandeep Kumar Mishra, 2015 batch officer from Lakshadweep to Delhi, Anil Agarwal, 2015 batch officer from Andaman Nicobar to Delhi, Anil Banka, 2015 batch, from Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir, YLN Reddy, 2016 batch, from Puducherry to Mizoram, Mohamed Mansoor L, 2017 batch, from Puducherry to Cahndigarh, Rudra Goud, 2017 batch, from Puducherry to Ladakh and Vivek Kumar Tripathi, 2018 batch, from Delhi to Mizoram.