35 IAS officers transferred

The first major reshuffle after DVS took charge as CM

The State government on Thursday conducted a major surgery to the bureaucracy by transferring 35 IAS officers. 

The transfer has come at the time when the government is organising the second edition of Global Investors’ Meet on June 7 and 8. 

This is the first major reshuffle of IAS officers after Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda assumed office in August 2011.

M N Vidyashankar, who was Principal Secretary DPAR (e-governance) and IT and BT department (in-charge), has been made new Commerce and Industries Principal Secretary. Yogendra Tripathi is new Commercial Taxes Commissioner and Pradeep Singh Kharola is the new BDA Commissioner. The post of IT and BT Principal Secretary has been kept vacant.

In the top bureaucracy, Subir Hari Singh, who was ACS-Development Commissioner, has been made ACS in the cadre post. Kaushik Mukherjee, who was ACS, Forest, Ecology and Environment, has been made Development Commissonier. 

C S Kedar and Anita Kaul, who returned from the Central service, have been made Bangalore Development Authority Chairperson and Principal Secretary Planning, Programme Monitoring and Statistics respectively. 

L V Nagarajan, who was Principal Secretary to Finance department, has been elevated to ACS rank in the existing posting.

The list of other officers who have been transferred and their new postings are: 

V Umesh, Principal Secretary, Home Department; G V Krishna Rau, Principal Secretary, Co-operation Departmen; R Sridharan, Principal Secretary, Forest, Ecology and Environment Department; Bharat Lal Meena, Principal Secretary Agriculture Department; Amita Prasad, Principal Secretary Urban Development Department; Sanjiv Kumar, Principal Secretary Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department; Rajeev Chawla, Metropolitan Commissioner, Bangalore Metropolitan Regional Development Authority; Anil Kumar Jha, Secretary Commerce and Industries Department (Mines, SSI & Textile) and additional charge of the post of Managing Director, MML; P N Sreenivasachary, Secretary Urban Development Department (Municipalties & UDAs); K S Prabhakara, Commissioner for Public Instructions, Bangalore; Tushar Girinath, State Project Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan; Arvind Shrivastava, Secretary, Finance Department (Expenditure); Vishwanatha Reddy, Managing Director, Karnataka Small Scale Industries Development Corporation; M E Shivalingamurthy, Additional Secretary, DPAR (Janaspandana); N Prabhakar, Managing Director, Mysore Sugar Company Limited; B G Nandakumar, Commissioner Religious and Charitable Endowment and Additional Secretary, Revenue Department; P Hemalatha; Director Women and Child Development Department; B N Krishnaiah, Managing Director, Mysore Sales International Limited; M N Ajay Nagabhushan, Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Panchayat, Mysore; C Shikha, Joint Director (Training), Administrative Training Institute; K V Thrilok Chandra, Director, Horticulture Department; V Veerabhadraiah, Chief Executive Officer, Bangalore Urban District, N Prakash, Director (Personnel), Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation Limited, R R Jannu, Additional Director, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, Bangalore; V Shankar, Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Panchayat, Belgaum; F R Jamadar, Managing Director, Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Corporation; G Sathyavathi, Director, Tourism Department, Bangalore.

Besides, Mysore City Corporation Commissioner Raikar has been transferred and posted as General Manager (Administration), Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation, Bangalore. 

The government also appointed Kanteerava Studio Managing Director N R Vishukumar as the Director of Information department.