In a major reshuffle ahead of assembly elections this year, eighteen IAS officers have been transferred in Chhattisgarh. The transfer orders were issued on Sunday night.
The district collectors of six districts have been changed and three districts have got new Zila Parishad Chief Executive Officers in this reshuffle.
The district collector of Balrampur district Avinash Sharan has been transferred as the district collector to Kabirdham district which is Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh’s home district. Former Sukma district collector Niraj Bansod, who was currently working as Kabirdham collector, has been transferred to Jangir Champa district in North Chhattisgarh.
IAS officer Janak Patel has been posted as the district collector of Baloda-Bajar district. Mahadev Kawre has been shifted to Bemetara district as the collector and Doman Singh has been sent to Mungeli district as the collector.
IAS officer Hiralal Nayak, who was working as the additional collector of Maoist insurgency-hit Bastar district, has been posted as the collector of Balrampur district.
Young IAS officer Prabhat Malik has been named as the new CEO of Bastar Zila Parishad. IAS officer Gaurav Kumar and Ritesh Agarwal were transferred as the Zila Parishad CEOs of Dhmatari and Durg district respectively.
This is the second reshuffle of IAS officers in Chhattisgarh in last six months and it assumes significance as Chhattisgarh is considered a state run by bureaucrats.
