Reshuffle of IAS officers in UP

More than half a dozen IAS officers have been given new assignments in Uttar Pradesh. Accordingly, L Venkateshwar has been appointed as Director General, UP Academy of Administration and Management and DG, Deendayal Upadhayay State Rural Development Institute, while Shahid Manjar Abbas Rizvi was made Special Secretary, Agriculture Production Commissioner and Rajendra Singh-II is Special Secretary, Agriculture Production Commissioner. Similarly, Arvind Kumar Singh has been appointed as Director, Agriculture Marketing and Foreign Trading Directorate; Narendra Prasad Pandey as Special Secretary, Agriculture Production Commissioner; Ajay Yadav as MD, UP Land Reforms Corporation and Ankit Kumar Agrawal was made Special Secretary, Planning.