21 IAS officers get new responsibilities in UP

In a major administrative reshuffle in UP, as many as 21 IAS officers have been transferred and assigned new responsibilities. Accordingly, Krishna Karunesh has been posted as District Magistrate, Gorakhpur, while Vijay Kiran Anand is now In-charge Director General, School Education with additional charge of Mela Officer, Kumbh Mela Prayagraj and Anamika Singh takes over as Secretary, Women Welfare and Child Development. Similarly, Suryapal Gangwar will be posted as District Magistrate, Lucknow; Abhishek Prakash as Secretary, Infrastructure and Industrial Development; Vishakh G as District Magistrate, Kanpur; Bhawani Singh as MD, Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam; Anupam Shukla as Special Secretary, Energy; Seelam Sai Teja as CDO Jaunpur; Selva Kumari J as Commissioner, Bareilly Division; Soumya Agarwal as District Magistrate, Ballia; Inder Vikram Singh as District Magistrate, Aligarh; Priyanka Niranjan as District Magistrate, Basti; Chandni Singh as District Magistrate, Jalaun; Avnish Kumar Rai as District Magistrate, Etawah; Shruti Singh as
Secretary and DG, Medical Education; Ravi Ranjan as District Magistrate, Firozabad; Neha Sharma as Director, Local Bodies; Shakuntala Gautam as Labour Commissioner, Kanpur; R Ramesh Kumar as Principal Secretary, Department of Sericulture and Rakesh Kumar Singh II, DM, Ghaziabad, will handle additional charge of Vice Chairman, Ghaziabad Development Authority.