State govt transfers 24 IAS officers at one go

In a major shake-up of the bureaucracy, the state government on Thursday transferred 24 IAS officers with immediate effect. Senior IAS officer E V Ramana Reddy has been posted as the Revenue department secretary, replacing B Basavaraju.

Names of the officers who have been transferred and their new postings are as follows: Sanjiv Kumar, Additional Chief Secretary, Skill Development department (he is placed in concurrent charge of Labour department); B Basavaraju, Principal Secretary, Transport department; Ganga Ram Baderiya, Principal Secretary Revenue department (Disaster Management, Bhoomi and UPOR); Mohammad Mohsin, Secretary, Backward Classes Welfare department (he is placed in concurrent charge of Minorities Welfare, Haj and Wakf department); Naveen Raj Singh, Secretary, Tourism department; P Manivannan, Secretary, Social Welfare department (he is placed in concurrent charge of Chief Project Officer, Karnataka State Highways Improvement Project; Munish Moudgil, Managing Director, Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Corporation Limited.

J Ravishankar, Managing Director, Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board; A B Ibrahim, Commissioner for Transport and Road Safety; Sameer Shukla, Managing Director, Mysuru Minerals Limited (he is placed in concurrent charge of Commissioner, Employment  and Training); Vipul Bansal, Commissioner, Rural Development; K G Jagadeesha, Deputy Commissioner, Dakshina Kannada district; M Lokesh, Deputy Commissioner Yadgir district; Umesh Kusugal, Member, Karnataka Appellate Tribunal; Manoj Jain, Managing Director, Karnataka Small Industries Development Corporation Limited; Chitra V, Deputy Commissioner, Hassan district; Ujjwal Kumar Ghosh, Deputy Commissioner, Kalaburagi district; B B Cauvery, Chief Executive Officer, Kolar Zilla Panchayat. Ram Prasath Manohar, Deputy Commissioner, Ballari district; K S Manjunath, Executive Director, Karnataka Examinations Authority; T Venkatesh, Deputy Commissioner, Udupi district; C P Shylaja, Chief Executive Officer, Ramanagaram Zilla Panchayat; J Manjunath, Chief Executive Officer, Chikkaballapur Zilla Panchayat; Chief Executive Officer, Bengaluru Urban Zilla Panchayat has been placed in concurrent charge of Chief Executive Officer, Bengaluru Rural Zilla Panchayat; Deputy Commissioner of Uttara Kannada district has been placed in concurrent charge of Chief Executive Officer of Uttara Kannada Zilla Panchayat; Deputy Commissioner of Ballari district has been placed in concurrent charge of Ballari Zilla Panchayat.