The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday affected a major reshuffle in higher-rung bureaucracy, transferring and posting 7 IAS officers among 15 officers.
Vijay Kumar Bidhuri, Commissioner/Secretary to the Government, Revenue Department has been posted as Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir while Dr Piyush Singla, Administrative Secretary, General Administration Department, has been posted as Administrative Secretary, Revenue Department.
Sanjeev Verma, Commissioner/Secretary to the Government, Department of Forest, Ecology and Environment, is transferred and posted as Commissioner/Secretary, General Administration Department while Dheeraj Gupta, who was serving as Principal Secretary to the Government, Housing and Urban Development Department for four years now, was also transferred and posted as Principal Secretary to the Government, Department of Forest, Ecology and Environment. Dheeraj Gupta, IAS (AGMUT:1993), Principal Secretary to the Government, Housing and Urban Development Department, holding additional charge of smart Cities and proposed new Jammu/Srinagar Metropolitan Regional Development, is transferred and posted as Principal Secretary to the Government, Department of Forest, Ecology and Environment.
The government has assigned the charge of Housing and Urban Development Department to H Rajesh Prasad, IAS (AGMUT: 1995), Principal Secretary to the Government, Power Development Department, in addition to his own duties, till further orders.
