22 IAS, 45 Bihar Administrative Service officers transferred in major reshuffle

The Bihar government on Friday transferred 22 IAS officers, including five district magistrates (DMs) as well as 45 Bihar Administrative Service (BAS) officers.

According to a notification from the General Administration Department, Patna DM Chandrashekhar Singh, a 2010 batch IAS officer, has been transferred to the Chief Minister’s Secretariat as Special Secretary.

Singh was recently in the news for his war of letters with the state education department over the closure of schools in Patna in view of cold wave conditions.

Singh has been replaced by 2011 batch IAS officer Shirshat Kapil Ashok, who is currently IG (Prisons). Naval Kishore Choudhary (2013-batch IAS officer), currently DM of Gopalganj, is the new DM of Bhagalpur.

Bhagalpur DM Subrata Kumar Sen (2013 batch IAS officer) has been appointed DM of Muzaffarpur.

Arvind Kumar Chaudhary (1995-batch IAS officer), currently posted as Principal Secretary (Finance), has been given the additional charge of Principal Secretary (Rural Development Department).

Principal Secretary of the Home Department, Senthil K Kumar (1996-batch IAS officer), is the new Principal Secretary of the Planning Department.

Principal Secretary, Minority Welfare Department, Safina AN (1997-batch IAS officer) has been appointed member of the Board of Revenue.

Similarly, 45 officers of Bihar Administrative Service (BAS) have also been given new postings.

On January 23, 29 senior IAS officers were assigned new postings in a major bureaucratic reshuffle.

“The transfers and postings made in the last few days were part of routine exercise,” a senior GAD official said.

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