Yogi Adityanath Orders Transfer of 37 IAS Officers in UP: List of Names With New Postings After BJP Loses Gorakhpur

Gorakhpur, March 17: In what is believed to a major bureaucratic rejig, the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday transferred 37 IAS officials, including 16 District Magistrates. According to an official statement, Rajiv Rautela, the District Magistrate of Gorakhpur has been shifted and promoted as Divisional Commissioner of Devipatan. It must be noted that Rautela had courted controversy on Wednesday for barring the media from accessing details at the Lok Sabha bypoll counting centre.

The decision to transfer 37 IAS Officers comes days after the BJP lost in Gorakhpur. The Samajwadi Party has wrested Gorakhpur, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's home constituency, from the BJP after several decades.

Anoop Chandra Pandey, the industrial and infrastructure development commissioner (IIDC) has been rewarded with additional charge of the NRI Department, besides the additional charge of Greater Noida. Pandey was credited with the success of the 'UP Investors Summit' held in February.

While Senior bureaucrat Rajeev Kapoor who was in waiting ever since his return from a central deputation has been made the chairman of PICUP, Alok Tandon has been given additional charge of Noida as its chairman. Reports inform that Deepak Agarwal has been made the new divisional commissioner of Varanasi while Chandra Prakash Tripathi has been made the new commissioner of Saharanpur.

Meanwhile, Alok Sinha has been made the new principal secretary (Commercial Tax), Nitin Ramesh has been made the new principal secretary (Housing). He replaced Mukul Singhal who has been sent to the Silk Department. Ravindra Naik, has been made the director industries, while Saumya Agarwal has been given the charge of vice-chairperson of Kanpur Development Authority (KDA).

Chandra Bhushan Singh has been given charge as new District Magistrate of Aligarh, S.V. Ranga Rao is the new commissioner of Azamgarh while Shivakant Dwivedi has been made the new District Magistrate of Azamgarh.

As per reports by IANS, District Magistrate of Bareilly Raghvendra Singh, who had created a storm after his comments on the social media on the growing communal temper in the state has also been removed.

Rajendra Prasad has now become the new District Magistrate of Bhadohi, Krishna Karunesh (Balrampur), Pramod Kumar Upadhyaya (Hapur), Hemant Kumar (Amroha), Navneet Chahal (Chandauli), Rama Shankar Maurya (Hathras) and Amit Singh is the new District Magistrate of Sonebhadra.

Akhilesh Kumar Mishra has been made the new District Magistrate of Pilibhit. Surendra Vikram has been removed and replaced by Bhawani Singh as District Magistrate of Ballia. Sarika Mohan has been removed and replaced by Sheetal Verma as District Magistrate of Sitapur. Meanwhile, Pranjal Yadav, who was special secretary in Udyog Bandhu and played an important role in the Investors Summit has surprisingly been shunted out and made the new director (Training).

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