Major administrative rejig in Chhattisgarh

In a major administrative reshuffle as many as 89 IAS officers have been given new responsibilities in Chhattisgarh. Accordingly, Subrata Sahu has been appointed as Additional Chief Secretary, Religious Trust and Endowment Department and given additional charge of Director General, Thakur Pyarelal State Panchayat and Rural Development Institute, while Manoj Pingua will take over as ACS, Home and Jail Department with additional charge of ACS, Forest Department, Chairman, Board of Secondary Education and Chairman, Vyapam. Similarly Niharika Barik is posted as Principal Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Development Department with additional charge of Development Commissioner, PS, Electronics and Information Technology; Shehla Nigar as Agriculture Production Commissioner with additional charge of Secretary, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Biotechnology Department and Sugarcane Commissioner; Dr. Kamalpreet as Secretary, General Administration Department with additional charge of Public Works Department; Pardeshi Siddharth Komal is shifted as Secretary, School Education; Govindram Churendra as Commissioner, Surguja Division, Ambikapur; Prasanna R as Secretary, Higher Education with additional charge of Officer on Special Duty, Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences Bilaspur; Anbalagan P as Secretary, Tourism and Culture Department with additional charge of Religious Trust and Endowment Department; Ms Alarmelmangai D as Labor Commissioner; S Prakash as Secretary, Transport Department with additional charges of Parliamentary Affairs and Social Welfare Department; Topeshwar Verma as Secretary, Revenue Board, Bilaspur; C R Prasanna as Secretary, Cooperative Department; Bhuvanesh Yadav as Secretary Revenue and Disaster Management Department; S Bharathidasan as Secretary, Skill Development, Technical Education and Employment; Shammi Abidi as Secretary, Women and Child Development; P Dayanand as Secretary, Energy Department, Mineral Resources Department, Public Relations, Commerce and Industry and Aviation and Chairman Chhattisgarh State Power Company; Basavaraju S as Secretary, Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department with additional charge of Medical Education Department; Himshikhar Gupta as Secretary, Sports and Youth Welfare; Mohammad Abdul Kesar Haq as Secretary, Commerce and Industry Department with additional charge of Public Health Engineering Department; Yashwant Kumar as Director, Village Industries, Managing Director, Chhattisgarh Handicrafts Development Board, Chhattisgarh Handloom Development and Managing Director, Chhattisgarh Khadi and Village Industries Board; Janak Prasad Pathak as Managing Director, Mandi Board; Bhim Singh as CEO, Chhattisgarh State Rural Development Agency; Rajesh Singh Rana as CEO, CREDA; Shikha Rajput Tiwari as Commissioner, Bilaspur Division; Satyanarayan Rathore as Commissioner, Durg Division; Mahadev Kavre as Director, Treasury and Accounts; Dr. Priyanka Shukla as Director, Technical Education, Employment and Training, Veterinary Services; Kiran Kaushal as Special Secretary, Commercial Tax Registration Department; Dr. Tamboli Ayyaj Fakir Bhai as Commissioner, Housing Board; Kumar Lal Chauhan as Collector, Sarangarh-Bilaigarh; Vipin Majhi as Collector, Narayanpur; Anurag Pandey as Collector, Bijapur and Jaiprakash Maurya takes over as Special Secretary, Higher Education.