Reshuffle of IAS officers in Bihar

IAS officers have been reshuffled and assigned new responsibilities in Bihar. Vinod Singh Gunjiyal has been appointed as Secretary, Prohibition, Excise and Registration with additional charge of OSD, Bihar Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (BIPARD) and IG, Registration-cum-Excise Commissioner, Patna, while B Kartikey Dhanji was made State Project Director, Bihar Education Project Council with additional charge of State Transport Commissioner. Similarly, Sanjay Kumar Upadhyaya will be posted as Special Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Protection; Mrs Seema Tripathi as Special Secretary, Art, Culture and Youth Department; Kanwal Tanuj as Special Secretary, Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Ram Shankar as District Officer and District Magistrate, Sheohar; Dinesh Kumar Rai as District Officer and District Magistrate, West Champaran, Bettiah; Arun Kumar Thakur as Joint Secretary, Disaster Management; Shirsat Kapil Ashok as IG, Prisons & Reforms Services, Home Department with additional charge of Additional Secretary, Home;  Alok Ranjan Ghosh as Director, Agriculture and Udayan Mishra has been shifted as Director, Science & Technology with additional charge of Additional Secretary, Science & Technology.