New Government New Faces: 21 IAS, 16 IPS Officers Transferred, Redesignated In Rajasthan

Congress government of Rajasthan, in a bureaucratic shuffle, has transferred and redesignated 21 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and 16 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, NDTV has reported.

According to the report, this was the fourth transfer list for the IAS and second for the IPS officers.

As per the list released by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Wednesday (2 January), IAS officer and Kota divisional commissioner Kailash Chand Verma was transferred as Jaipur divisional commissioner, Shyam Singh Rajpurohit was appointed as Pratapgarh district collector, whereas Vijay Pal Singh was made Jaipur Municipal Corporation commissioner and Janga Sriniwas Rao was designated as Jairpur’s additional director general of Civil Rights.

Other officers that were transferred include R Venkateshwaram as principal secretary (animal husbandry), Subir Kumar as managing director of Jaipur metro, Narayan Lal Meena as information and public relations commissioner, Chandrashekhar Mutha as Bharatpur divisional commissioner, among others.

In place of Bhupendra Singh, IPS officer NRK Reddy was redesignated as director general (jail), and the former was given the portfolio of director general - Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Special Operations Group (SOG).

As per the order by DoPT, three Director General of Police rank IPS officers and 11 additional DGPs were transferred.