CHANDIGARH: In another round of transfers after the new cabinet was formed, the Punjab government on Wednesday transferred 12 IAS officers and five PCS officers.
Ravneet Kaur has now been posted as special chief secretary of labour, animal husbandry, dairy development and fisheries department. Vijay Kumar Janjua would take over as special chief secretary-cum-financial commissioner revenue and rehabilitation department. Additional chief secretary A Venu Prasad has been handed additional responsibility of parliamentary affairs department, in addition to the chairman-cum-managing director of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited.
Alok Shekhar is the new principal secretary of medical education and research department; Vikas Garg secretary of the health and family welfare department; Veerendra Kumar Meena is secretary of defence services welfare department, in addition to being secretary of home affairs, justice and jails department. Arun Sekhri has been posted as registrar cooperative societies, Pradeep Kumar Aggarwal is director of social security women and child development department, Vinay Bublani is chief administrator of Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority in addition to charge of director town and country planning department.
Sanjay Popli has been posted as chief executive officer of Punjab water supply and sewerage board, B Srinivasan as director general of school education, and Uma Shankar Gupta has been given the additional charge of CEO of the Punjab bureau of investment promotion, besides additional managing director of Punjab information and communications technology corporation.
PCS officers Anmol Rattan Singh Dhaliwal has been posted as additional deputy commissioner (general) Sangrur; Jyoti Bala as joint commissioner of municipal corporation Jalandhar; Manjit Singh Cheema as deputy principal secretary to the chief minister, in addition to assistant excise and taxation commissioner in Patiala; Mankanwal Singh Chahal as deputy principal secretary to the chief minister, in addition to estate officer housing GMADA; and Ravinder Singh Arora as SDM Fazilka.
2 IPS officers shifted
The Punjab Police gave inspector general of police (IG) A K Pandey the additional charge of director, special security group, law and order, commando and special operations group. He would continue to head the special protection unit in Chandigarh. Another IPS officer S Boopathi has now been posted as DIG (personnel) and in addition to DIG (administration) at police headquarters in Chandigarh.
