A Major reshuffle of IAS officers including district collectors by Chhattisgarh government

Chhattisgarh:  Raipur collector S Bharathi Dasan has been appointed special secretary to the CM with additional charge of special secretary, Agriculture Department, nodal officer of ‘Narva, Ghurva, Garuva and Baari’ scheme, Chhattisgarh Godhan Nyay Scheme, and commissioner-cum-director of Public Relations.

Commissioner of Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) Saurabh Kumar will be the new Raipur collector. District collectors of Raipur, Rajnandgaon, Janjgir-Champa, Korea, Balrampur-Ramanujganj, Dhamtari, Korba, Mungeli, and Bemetara districts have been changed.

Dhamtari collector Jai Prakash Maurya has been posted as Director, Geology, and Mining, with an additional charge of managing director, Chhattisgarh State Mineral Development Corporation and director, Town and Country Planning. Janjgir-Champa collector Yashwant Kumar has been posted as director of Agriculture, with additional charge as managing director, Chhattisgarh Tourism Board, and sugarcane commissioner.

Topeshwar Verma, a 2005 batch IAS officer presently posted as Rajnandgaon collector was transferred as secretary, Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Protection Department with additional charge of secretary of Transport Department, transport commissioner and commissioner of Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Protection, while Taran Prakash Sinha, who was posted as joint secretary to the chief minister with additional charge of commissioner-cum-director of Public Relations has been appointed as Rajnandgaon collector.

Korea collector Satyanarayan Rathore has been shifted as registrar, Firms, and Societies, with additional charge of mission director, Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural).

Balrampur-Ramanujganj collector Shyam Lal Dhawde has been appointed as Korea collector. Korba collector Kiran Kaushal has been posted as Director, Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Protection, with additional charge of managing director, Chhattisgarh State Cooperative Marketing Federation (Markfed), Raipur.

Mungeli collector Padum Singh Alma has been shifted to Dhamtari collector. Bemetara collector Shiv Anant Tayal will be joint secretary, Agriculture Department, with additional charge as managing director, Chhattisgarh State Agriculture Marketing (Mandi) Board, Raipur.