Amid lockdown, MP govt reshuffles 50 IAS officers

Bhopal, May 10 () In a major administrativereshuffle amid the lockdown, the Madhya Pradesh government hastransferred 50 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers,including some additional chief secretaries, principalsecretaries and a former chief secretary.

This is the first major bureaucratic rejig by theBJP-led state government since Shivraj Singh Chouhan becamechief minister in March this year.

As per the order issued on Saturday night, formerchief secretary Gopal Reddy has been posted as chairman of therevenue board at Gwalior, I C P Keshari as vice chairman ofthe Narmada Valley Development Authority, Vinod Kumar asadditional chief secretary (ACS) of the general administrationdepartment and J N Kansotia as ACS of the animal husbandrydepartment, official sources said.

Besides, Anupam Rajan is posted as principal secretaryof the public relations and higher education departments.

The government has removed P Narhari as commissionerof the public relations department and replaced him with SudamP Khade. Narhari has now been made managing director of themarketing federation and will continue as commissioner of theurban development and administration department.

As per the order, Sanjay Shukla is posted as principalsecretary of the industrial policy and promotion department,replacing Rajesh Rajora, who is transferred as principalsecretary of the labour department.

Neeraj Mandloi is posted as principal secretary of thepublic works department, replacing Malay Shrivastava, who isnow posted as principal secretary of the public healthengineering department.

Forty other senior IAS officers, including two whosuffered from COVID-19 and later recovered, have also beentransferred, the sources said. MASGK GK