Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], Aug 2 (ANI): The government of Gujarat on Saturday issued transfer orders 58 Indian Police Service IPS officers in the state.

Surat Police Commissioner Ajay Kumar Tomar

The notification in this regard was issued on August 1 by the Gujarat Home Department.

IPS T S Bisht, who was the Director-General, Civil Defence and Commandant General, Home Guards, Ahmedabad was transferred to the post of Director General of Police, CID (Crime and Railways), Gandhinagar.

Meanwhile, IPS Sanjay Srivastava was transferred from Director General of Police, CID (Crime and Railways), Gandhinagar and appointed on the ex-Cadre post of Commissioner of Police in Ahmedabad.

Another IPS Ajay Kumar Tomar was transferred from Special Commissioner of Police (Crime), Ahmedabad to the cadre post of Commissioner of Police, Surat.

Other officers of different cadres and designations, were shuffled all around the state as well.

The notification reads that the transfers were being made in ‘public interest’.

New Delhi: The Rajasthan government has transferred or redesignated 57 officers of the Indian Forest Service (IFS) and 31 officers of the Rajasthan Administration Service (RAS)

IFS Shruti Sharma has been posted as Principal Chief Conservator of Forest,

IFS Shruti Sharma has been posted as Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Jaipur whereas in the transfers of RAS, Narendra Gupta has been posted as Additional Divisional Commissioner, Jaipur, as per an order of the Department of Personnel issued on Sunday night. Earlier on July 31, the government had transferred or redesignated 97 RAS officers.

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New Delhi [India], Aug 7 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs in a series of orders sent several IPS officers to paramilitary forces and other organisations on deputation on Friday.

Dayal Gangwar, an Odisha cadre IPS officer, will hold the post of IG in CISF which is deployed on the Delhi Metro, almost all airports and other important establishments.

CBI Joint Director Amrit Mohan Prasad has been appointed as Additional Director General (ADG) in ITBP; Arvind Deep a UT cadre officer has been appointed as ADG in Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) from Delhi Police.

Apart from these two top level transfers, MHA has also sent mid-level IPS officers to paramilitary forces.

Ayush Mani Tiwari, a 1997 batch IPS officer, has been sent to Border Security Force (BSF) from Bureau of Civil Aviation Security.

P S Ranpise, IPS of Odisha cadre, has been sent on deputation to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

Some officers have been elevated to senior vacant posts. Sonal V Mishra working as Deputy Inspector General (DIG) in CRPF has been appointed as Inspector General (IG) in CRPF.

Prateek Mohanty 2000 batch IPS officer has also elevated to IG in CISF.

Dayal Gangwar, an Odisha cadre IPS officer, will hold the post of IG in CISF which is deployed on the Delhi Metro, almost all airports and other important establishments.

CISF DIG Dayak Gangwar has been appointed as IG in CISF on deputation basis from the date of joining the post.

Jitender Rana, a 2005 batch IPS officer, will join the CISF as DIG. He was working as senior-commandment in CISF.

Education secretary Manisha Saxena has been transferred and posted as transport commissioner.

New Delhi: In a bureaucratic reshuffle in the Delhi government on Friday, senior IAS officers Renu Sharma and Rajeev Verma, who were suspended by the Centre during the COVID-19 lockdown, got new postings.

Sharma, a 1988 batch officer, has been posted as additional chief secretary in the urban development department, while Verma will take charge of the vigilance department as principal secretary, according to an order issued by the services department

Education secretary Manisha Saxena has been transferred and posted as transport commissioner. H Rajesh Prasad will be principal secretary education with the additional charge of higher education and training and technical education, the order stated.

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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday transferred four IPS officers, a home department spokesperson said. ADG/IG, PAC Central command, Lucknow Ramkumar has been made ADG cyber crime Lucknow.

DG Jail Administration Anand Kumar has been given additional charge of civil security,

Additional Superintendent of Police, Azamgarh, Elamaran G has been made additional DCP Gautam Buddha Nagar, ASP Bulandshahar Gopal Krishna Chaudhary is now additional DCP Lucknow and ASP Varanasi Mohammad Mushtaq has been made ASP Railway Agra, the spokesperson said. Besides, DG, jail administration, Anand Kumar has been given additional charge of civil security, the spokesperson added.

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Mumbai, Sep 3 (PTI) A day after a major reshuffle in top echelon of Maharashtra”s police establishment, the home department on Thursday transferred four more IPS officers, including Aurangabad police commissioner Chiranjeev Prasad.

Chiranjeev Prasad

Nikhil Gupta, an IPS officer of the 1996-batch who has returned to his parent cadre from central deputation, has been appointed the new Aurangabad police commissioner, a home department order said here.

He will replace Prasad, who has been posted as Special Inspector General, Nagpur Range, succeeding IPS officer K M M Prasanna, the order said.

Prasanna has been appointed Special Inspector General of the Aurangabad Range, it said.

Special IG-rank officer Ravindra Singhal has been transferred to Mumbai as controller of the weights and measures department, the order said.

The home department on Wednesday had transferred more than 40 IPS officers.

Meanwhile, senior IPS officer Bipin Kumar Singh on Thursday took charge as the new Navi Mumbai police commissioner.

He succeeded Sanjay Kumar, who was on Wednesday appointed additional director general (ADG), training and special forces.

Chandigarh, Sep 3 (PTI) The Haryana government on Thursday relieved DIG Ashwin Shenvi with immediate effect for appointment as the SP of the Central Bureau of Investigation on a four-year deputation.

IPS officer Ashwin Shenvi

Shenvi, a 2006-batch IPS officer of the Haryana cadre, was currently posted as the Superintendent of Police, Jind.

The Haryana government has placed services of senior IPS officer Ashwin Shenvi at the disposal of the Centre for appointment as of the SP, Central Bureau Investigation, on deputation basis for a period of four years from the date of his joining the CBI, an order issued by the state Home Department said.

Meanwhile, Kaithal SP Shashank Kumar Sawan has been given the additional charge of the Jind Superintendent of Police.

Mumbai, Sep 4 (PTI) The Shiv Sena on Friday defended the recent transfers of IPS officers by the Maharashtra government, saying the decision was taken on “merit” keeping in mind interests of the state.

All recent IPS transfers, except the one of Anti- Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Deven Bharti, were transparent, the Sena publication said.

An editorial in the party mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’, said the transfers in top echelons of the state police were carried out after consultations between the three Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance partners, the Shiv Sena, the NCP and the Congress.

The Sena heads the MVA government in which the home portfolio is handled by the NCP.

Hitting out at the BJP for criticising the transfers, the Marathi newspaper claimed the government”s decision was “perfect” and maintained the opposition party was feeling “stifled”.

Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Devendra Fadnavis and state BJP chief Chandrakant Patil had criticised the MVA government for transferring top IPS officials in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Despite demands to effect transfers after coming to power (in November 2019), (Chief Minister) Uddhav Thackeray chose not to do so for seven months and worked on the fight against the pandemic with the administration appointed by the previous (BJP) government,” the editorial said.

All recent IPS transfers, except the one of Anti- Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Deven Bharti, were transparent, the Sena publication said.

Bharti’s transfer was questionable as he was doing a good job at the ATS and had some more time left in his post, it stated.

All other appointments were “perfect” and it was the political leadership’s job to put the best people in senior positions, the Marathi daily said.

The state government recently transferred more than 40 IPS officers.

Mumbai, Sep 5 (PTI) The police commissioner of Pimpri-Chinchwad in Pune has approached the Central Administrative Tribunal here after being transferred from his post in less than a year.

Police Commissioner Sandeep Bishnoi

Sandeep Bishnoi was appointed as Pimpri-Chinchwad commissioner of police on September 20, 2019, and has challenged his transfer order of September 2 this year.

Bishnoi, in his application, claimed “such abrupt transfers without justification or valid reason is contrary to law and ought to be set aside”.

The Pimpri Chinchwad police commissionerate was carved out of areas in Pune district on August 15, 2018, keeping in mind the rising number of crimes in the area.

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government transferred six IAS officers 2 days after the transfer of IPS officers.

IAS officer Neha Sharma

Neha Sharma has been posted as ACEO of Noida while Amit Kumar Singh has been appointed as District Magistrate of Kaushambi.

According to the information, Manish Verma has been made as special secretary of basic education.

Anand Kumar Singh has been appointed District Magistrate of Banda.

The order of Rajesh Kumar Pandey, who was made the District Magistrate of Mau on Saturday, has been cancelled and kept in waiting.

Amit Kumar Bansal has been made the District Magistrate of Mau in his place.

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Lucknow, Sep 13 (PTI): The Uttar Pradesh government has transferred five IAS officers including two district magistrates, an official said Sunday.

District Magistrate of Banda Amit Singh Bansal

The official said Amit Singh Bansal, the district magistrate of Banda, has been made the district magistrate of Mau.

Manish Kumar Verma, the district magistrate of Kaushambi, has been made the special secretary (basic education).

Amit Kumar Singh, the special secretary in the micro, small and medium enterprises, has been made the new district magistrate of Kaushambi.

Anand Kumar Singh, who was the special secretary (basic education), has been made the new district magistrate of Banda.

Neha Sharma has been made the ACEO of Noida. Earlier she was the special secretary backward welfare department.

Rajesh Kumar Pandey, who was earlier transferred as district magistrate of Mau, has been kept in waiting.

Ghaziabad, Sep 16 (PTI) In a major district-level reshuffle of police officials, 22 sub-inspectors heading various police posts have been transferred and one police outpost, an official said on Wednesday.

Ghaziabad SSP Kalanidhi Naithani

The action was taken to improve the grassroots-level of policing and night patrolling to control the crime, said Ghaziabad’s Senior Superintendent of Police Kalanidhi Naithani.

These police posts and outposts, police establishments below police station-level, are in various sensitive parts of the city and the district’s rural areas, he added.

Earlier on September 6, SHO Anil Kumar Shahi of Sahibabad police station was attached to the police lines, considered a punishment posting.

Three days later, Shahi was suspended for not taking any action against the culprits of murders, he said.

The delinquent SHO was suspended after inspection of the Sahibabad police station, said Naithani.

During the reshuffle, two sub-inspectors and seven other policemen were also reinstated from suspension, he added.

Mumbai, Sep 18 (PTI) The Maharashtra government has transferred over 50 IPS officers, including the home department’s principal secretary (special) Amitabh Gupta.

New Pune Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta

Gupta will be the new police commissioner of Pune, according to a government order issued on Thursday evening.

Gupta was in news earlier this year after he allowed businessmen brothers Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan, under scanner in connection with the alleged Yes Bank and Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank scams, to travel from Khandala near Pune to Mahabaleshwar in Satara district amid lockdown.

He was sent on compulsory leave by the state government following uproar over the travel permit, but was later exonerated by a panel probing the matter.

The Maharashtra government order said that 41 officers have been allotted new assignments, while the remaining bureaucrats have not yet been given fresh postings.

Incumbent Pune police commissioner K Venkatesham has been transferred as additional director general of police (Special Campaign), while Deputy Commissioner of Police (Anti-Narcotics Cell) Shivdeep Lande has been promoted as Deputy Inspector General of Anti-Terrorism Squad in Mumbai.

Bhubaneswar, Sept 23 (PTI) The Odisha government on Wednesday effected a reshuffle at the IPS level and assigned new roles to nine officers, a notification issued by the Home department said.

Lalit Das, who was ADGP (Communication), has been posted as the ADGP, Head Quarters.

Three officers Arun Kumar Ray, Y K Jethwa and Ritu Arora, who returned from central deputation, have been appointed Additional Director General of Police (Communication), ADGP (Law and Order) and Officer on Special Duty (Home department) respectively.

Lalit Das, who was ADGP (Communication), has been posted as the ADGP, Head Quarters.

His predecessor, Vinaytosh Mishra, has been appointed as Director, State Crime Record Bureau (SCRB). He has replaced Rajesh Kumar, who will now hold the post of IGP, FSL (Forensic Science Laboratory), the notification said.

Inspector General of Police (Modernisation) Rekha Lohani has been appointed Additional Commissioner of Police while Dhenkanal Superintendent of Police (SP) Anupama James has been posted as SP (Vigilance).

Additional Commissioner of Police Sanjay Singh will replace Lohani as IGP (Modernisation).

Jaipur, Oct 6 (PTI) The Rajasthan government has transferred or redesignated 11 Indian Administrative Service officers and five Indian Police Service officers.

Roli Singh was today appointment as Principal Resident Commissioner.

Aparna Arora has been appointed Principal Secretary of School Education and Library Department, whereas Roli Singh is the new Principal Resident Commissioner, New Delhi, an order issued by the Department of Personnel said.

Hemant Kumar Gera, who was earlier the Secretary of Food and Civil Supplies Department, has been appointed to the Department of Personnel.

P Ramesh has replaced Vikas Sitaram Bhale as the Udaipur Divisional Commissioner. Bhale will now be the Commissioner of Tourism Department and RTDC Chairman.

Other IAS officers on the list are Manju Rajpal, Siddharth Mahajan, Rohit Gupta, Vishwa Mohan Sharma, Kana Ram and Suresh Kumar Ola.

Among the transfer list of IPS officers, Rajeev Dasot has been appointed Director General of Police (Jail), B L Soni Director General of Police (Anti-Corruption Bureau), Utkal Ranjan Sahoo Director General of Police (Home security) and Kaluram Rawat is the new Superintendent of Police, Dungarpur.

Rawat replaces Jai Yadav, who has been posted as Superintendent of Police (CID-CB), Jaipur.

IPS officer Piyush Anand

ADG establishment Piyush Anand and ADG Railway Sanjay Singhal will be swapping posts.

The senior government official said that orders to this effect were issued earlier on Saturday.

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New Delhi [India], October 15 (ANI): Election Commission of India on TVoting in Maharashtra, Haryana Chief Election Commissioner, Sunil AroraVoting in Maharashtra, Haryana Chief Election Commissioner, Sunil Arorahursday directed Madhya Pradesh government to cancel transfers of 12 Joint, Deputy Collectors in poll-bound districts.

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora

“The Commission today directed the State Government to cancel the transfer of 12 Joint/Deputy Collectors which were issued on Oct 8, 2020 in poll-bound districts,” ECI said in a statement.

“It came to the notice of Commission that these transfers were issued during the period of Model Code of Conduct,” it stated further.

Commission discussed the matter at length and after taking into consideration the recommendation of Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh, Commission has directed the State Government to cancel these transfers with immediate effect, a release from ECI reads.

Commission reiterated that in case any poll going district has an acute necessity to fill a vacant post during the operation of Model Code of Conduct, State Government in consultation with Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh, shall send a panel of suitable officers for Commission’s consideration and approval.

Mumbai, Oct 17 (PTI): Eighteen deputy commissioners of Mumbai police were transferred within the metropolis, including an official who is part of the team probing the fake TRP racket involving television news channels.

DCP (detection) Nandkumar Thakur, part of the probe into the TRP case, has been transferred as DCP (traffic), though an official clarified the shift was on a request from the former, made much before the scam came to light, due to personal reasons.

The orders were issued on Friday, an official said.

DCP (detection) Nandkumar Thakur, part of the probe into the TRP case, has been transferred as DCP (traffic), though an official clarified the shift was on a request from the former, made much before the scam came to light, due to personal reasons.

Thakur has been replaced in the Crime Branch by Prakash Jadhav, while Shashikumar Meena has been transferred as DCP Zone I, Datta Nalawade as DCP Anti-Narcotics Cell, Vijay Patil as DCP Zone IV, Krishnakant Upadhyay to Zone VI and M C V Mahesh Reddy to Zone X.

The order said S Chaitanya will be DCP Operations, Raju Bhujbal will take charge as DCP Enforcement, Yogesh Kumar Gupta will be DCP traffic, Sanjay Patil DCP HQ-II and S T Rathod will be DCP of SB-1.

Patna/Munger, Oct 29 (PTI) The Election Commission Thursday ordered immediate removal of the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police of Munger over violence during goddess Durga idol immersion that had left one dead and scores injured, officials said.

Rajesh Meena has been removed from the post of Munger DM.

The poll panel has also ordered an inquiry into the entire incident by Magadh Divisional Commissioner Asangba Chuba Ao, an election commission statement said.

The probe has to be completed within a week.

Rajesh Meena is District Magistrate and Lipi Singh is SP of Munger.

The EC statement said Munger will get a new DM and a Superintendent of Police Thursday itself.

One person was killed and over two dozen others, including security personnel, were injured in firing and stone-pelting during goddess Durga idol immersion late Monday night.

IPS officer Lipi Singh has been removed from the post of Munger SP.

Meanwhile, Munger witnessed violent protest Thursday too when agitators ransacked the SP office and torched a police outpost over the Monday incident.

The office of Sub Divisional Officer (SDO) was also allegedly targeted by the protestors, official sources said.

They burnt tyres near Rajiv Chowk in the Munger town demanding action against the SP and the police personnel responsible for allegedly opening fire during the idol immersion procession.

The RJD-helmed Grand Alliance has strongly criticised the Monday incident, likening the district police with General Dyer of infamous Jallianwala Bagh incident in Punjab during British rule on April 13, 1919.

IPS officer Lipi Singh is the daughter of RCP Singh, the JD(U) leader in the Rajya Sabha.

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Kolkata, Nov 3 (PTI) In a major IAS-cadre reshuffle effected by the West Bengal government, Poonambalam S, who was the district magistrate (DM) of Darjeeling, has been made the new joint secretary in the land and land reforms department and Shashank Sethi succeeded him, a notification said.

Darjeeling DM Poonambalam S was transferred hours after he met West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.

Sethi was earlier the managing director of Paschim Banga Agri Marketing Corporation and a project director in the Public Health Engineering department.

Incidentally, the Darjeeling DM was transferred hours after he met West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who is presently on a month-long visit to the Hills.

Government sources said it was a routine transfer.

The administrative rejig was effected for those who have been holding a post for nearly or more than three years, in accordance with Election Commission (EC) norms, they said.

It came just a week before the EC holds an all-party meeting to discuss matter regarding the upcoming assembly polls in the state.

Sumit Gupta, who was the executive director of West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC), has been appointed as the DM of North 24 Parganas, and Mohammed Enaur Rahman will be taking over as the district magistrate of Purba Bardhaman. Abhijit Mukhopadhyay has been made the new DM of Purulia, the notification issued on Monday said.

Similarly, Partha Ghosh has been posted as the new DM of Nadia, while Moumita Godara Basu named as Jalpaiguri district magistrate. Vijay Bharti, the Purba Bardhaman DM, replaced Basu while Vibhu Goel, the former Nadia DM, stepped into the shoes of Ghosh in Purba Medinipur.

Abhishek Kumar Tiwary, who was the DM of Jalpaiguri, was named as the joint secretary of the state higher education department. Chaitali Chakrabarti, who held the post of district magistrate of North 24 Parganas, has been shifted to the state home department as a special secretary.

A Subbiah, the principal secretary of the backward classes welfare department and MD of the West Bengal Essential Commodities Supply Corporation, was given the additional charge of commissioner in the Medinipore Division.

According to the notification, Vandana Yadav, a secretary of the Industry, Commerce and Enterprises department and director of the WBIDC, has been given additional charge as the secretary of the Public Enterprise and Industrial Reconstruction department.

Pritha Sarkar, who was also a secretary in Industry, Commerce and Enterprises department, has been made the commissioner of the Presidency Division, the notification added.

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