Reshuffle of IFS officers in Uttarakhand

In a major reshuffle, senior IFS officers in Uttarakhand have been handed over new responsibilities. Vinod Kumar has been appointed as Chief Wildlife Warden, Uttarakhand with additional charge of PCCF and Head of Forest Force (HoFF), while Rajiv Bhartari, PCCF (HoFF), was made Chairman, Biodiversity Board, Dehradun. Similarly,  Jabar Singh Suhag, CEO, CAMPA Project, Dehradun has been relieved of the additional charge of Chief Wildlife Warden and Anup Malik, Chief Project Director, Uttarakhand Forest Resource Project, was relieved of the additional charge of Chief Conservator of Forest, Wildlife; Nishant Verma will be posted as CCF, Forest Protection, Forest Fire  and Disaster Management; Neeraj Kumar as Deputy Director, Corbett Tiger Reserve; Parag Madhukar Dhakate, CCF, Eco-tourism, Promotion & Expansion, Uttarakhand, was handed over additional charge of Chief Wildlife Warden, Uttarakhand; Ashok Kumar Gupta is now Conservator of Forest, Shivalik Circle, Dehradun; Dharmesh Kumar Singh will take charge as Conservator of Forest/Additional Director, Uttarakhand  Forestry Training Institute, Haldwani; Deep Chandra Arya as  Conservator of Forest, Western Circle, Haldwani and Akhilesh Tiwari was appointed as Director, Nandadevi Biosphere Reserve and given additional charge of Director, Rajaji Tiger Reserve.