New Delhi: The Bihar authorities on Friday introduced the switch of 22 IAS officers, together with 5 district magistrates (DMs), and 45 officers from the Bihar Administrative Service (BAS) in a bureaucratic reshuffle. The final administration division issued a notification, stating that Patna DM Chandrasekhar Singh, a 2010-batch IAS officer, has been moved to the chief minister’s secretariat as particular secretary. Singh had not too long ago made headlines for his letter spat with the state schooling division over shutting down colleges in Patna because of chilly wave circumstances.
Hypothesis are rife that Nitish Kumar will quickly be sworn-in because the Chief Minister of Bihar for a seventh time period with the help of his earlier ally BJP. The BJP will get two Deputy CM posts for backing Nitish Kumar, as was accomplished after the 2020 Meeting elections, sources mentioned.
Singh’s successor is Shirsat Kapil Ashok, a 2011-batch IAS officer, who’s at present the IG (prisons). Naval Kishor Choudhary, a 2013-batch IAS officer, who’s the DM of Gopalganj, has been transferred to Bhagalpur as the brand new DM.
Subrat Kumar Sen, a 2013-batch IAS officer, who’s the DM of Bhagalpur, has been posted because the DM of Muzaffarpur. Arvind Kumar Choudhary, a 1995-batch IAS officer, who’s the principal secretary (finance), has been given the extra cost of principal secretary (rural improvement division).
Senthil Ok Kumar, a 1996-batch IAS officer, who’s the principal secretary, residence division, has been made the principal secretary of planning division. Safeena AN, a 1997-batch IAS officer, who’s the principal secretary, minorities welfare division, has been appointed because the member, income board.
The notification additionally mentioned that 45 officers of Bihar Administrative Service (BAS) have been given new postings. The transfers got here after the Bihar authorities had assigned new postings to 29 senior IAS officers on January 23 in a serious bureaucratic rejig.
A senior GAD official mentioned that the transfers and postings made in the previous few days had been a part of routine train.
