16 IAS officers get new portfolios in Punjab

As many as 16 IAS officers have been given new portfolios in Punjab. Anurag Agrawal, ACS- cum-Financial Commissioner, Cooperation, will also hold charge of ACS, Medical Education & Research, while Raji P Shrivastava has been posted as ACS, Freedom Fighters and Vivek Pratap Singh, PS, Local Government, will also handle charge of PS, Health & Family Welfare. Similarly, Rahul Bhandari has been relieved of the charge of PS, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs and PS, Information & PR and will only hold the charge of Principal Resident Commissioner, Punjab Bhawan, New Delhi; Veerendrsa Kumar Meena has been relieved of the charge of PS, Freedom Fighters and PS, Health & Family Welfare and will continue to hold charge of PS, Printing & Stationery; Vikas Garg, PS, Transport, will also hold charge of Financial Commissioner, Forest & Wildlife Preservation; Sumer Singh Gurjar has been appointed as PS, Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare and in addition PS, Horticulture and in addition PS, Soil & Water Conservation; Gurkirat Singh Kirpal, PS, Secretary, Tourism & Cultural Affairs and Secretary, Mines & Geology will also handle charge of Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs; Arshdeep Singh Thind, Secretary, Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare will also handle charge of Secretary, Horticulture; Mrs Ritu Aggarwal is posted as Secretary, Cooperation; Malwinder Singh Jaggi, CEO, Punjab Water Supply & Sewerage Board, has been assigned additional charge of Secretary, Information and PR and Secretary, Civil Aviation; Abhinav, Mission Director, National Health Mission, will also hold charge of Secretary, Health & Family Welfare; Pradeep Kumar Agarwal is made ME, Punjab Health System Corporation; Mrs Babita is posted as CEO, State Health Agency; Devinder Singh gets an additional charge of Director, Social Justice, Empowerment & Minorities and Puneet Goyal was shifted as Special Secretary, Home Affairs & Justice and in addition Controller, Printing & Stationery.