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Bengaluru: Tushar Giri Nath is new BBMP chief

BENGALURU: Ahead of the monsoon season and amid uncertainty over civic polls, the government on Thursday appointed senior IAS officer Tushar Giri Nath the new chief commissioner of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, replacing Gaurav Gupta.

This was part of the bureaucratic reshuffle involving 17 IAS officers on Thursday. Tushar Giri Nath, who was principal secretary, revenue department replaces Gupta, who has been transferred as additional chief secretary, infrastructure development department. The change of guard has come at a time when BBMP received a rap on its knuckles from the high court over poor management of the city's infrastructure, including missing out on deadlines to fill potholes on arterial roads, waterlogging and underpass flooding.

This apart, the transfer comes at a crucial time when the report on delimitation of wards ahead of the much-awaited civic polls is expected to be submitted to the government. BBMP has been functioning without an elected council since September 2020.

In K'taka for over 25 years

Tushar Giri Nath, who holds B.Tech degree in mechanical engineering and MBA in human resource management, belongs to the 1993 batch of IAS officers and hails from Uttar Pradesh. He has been in Karnataka for over 25 years, holding several state government positions. He was chairperson of Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board for over four years.

Other IAS transfers

The other IAS officers transferred and their new postings are: TK Anil Kumar (principal secretary, revenue department), V Ponnuraj (secretary, DPAR, e-governance), Manoj Jain (secretary, labour department), Khushboo G Chowdhary (deputy resident commissioner, Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi), Rajendra K (secretary, Karnataka Public Service Commission), Hiremath MG (managing director, Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development Corporation), Nitesh Patil (deputy commissioner, Belagavi), Gurudatta Hegde (DC, Dharwad), Naveen Bhat Y (director, personnel, KSRTC), Bhoobalan T (DC Bagalkot, concurrent), Dileesh Sasi (director, Electronic Delivery Citizen Services), Bharat S (MD, NWKRTC), Shilpa M (joint managing director, KUID&FC), Prasanna H (CEO, Udupi zilla panchayat) and Girish Dilip Badole (CEO, zilla panchayat, Kalaburagi).

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