In a major civil administration reshuffle, the government of Jammu and Kashmir has transferred and given new postings to 33 bureaucrats, including 20 IAS officers with immediate effect. The divisional commissioner of Jammu and six deputy commissioners (DCs) are among those transferred.
IAS officer Atal Dulloo has been posted as ACS, Agriculture Production Department. Vivek Bhardwaj has been appointed as ACS, Finance with an additional charge of administrative secretary of Industries and Commerce Department, and chairman of the Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE). Alok Kumar has been given the additional charge of administrative secretary, Civil Aviation Department, and civil aviation commissioner.
Ashok Kumar Parmar has taken the charge as principal secretary of the Jal Shakti Department. M Raju has been appointed as the new commissioner-secretary of the Mining Department and Rashmi Singh as sales tax commissioner. Navin Kumar Choudhary has been posted as the principal secretary of the Health and Medical Education Department.
Similarly, Raghav Langer, Sushma Chauhan, Bhupinder Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, and Anshul Garg, Avny Lavasa, Syed Sehrish Asgar, Kritika Jyotsna, Rahul Panday, and various other officers have been transferred or given additional charges.