West Bengal Government reshuffles top IAS officers

(Source: PTI)

West Bengal government on Tuesday appointed Sunil Kumar Gupta as the additional chief secretary of the governor replacing Satish Kumar Tewary, who will be reaching superannuation on February 28, an official said. In another S A Baba was named the chairman of the state valuation board while Onkar Singh Meena was appointed the secretary of the agriculture department, the government order said.

Joyoshi Dasgupta was posted as OSD of the administrative training institute, while Y Ratnakar Rao, the district magistrate of Hooghly was posted as Additional Secretary of Health Department.

Deepa Priya P will replace him in Hooghly, the order said.

The government canceled its earlier order of appointing Kaushik Nag as DM of Dakshin Dinajpur and retained Nikhil Nirmal for the post.

Devi Prasad Karanam, currently serving as the excise commissioner, commissioner of commercial taxes, and MD of the Biswa Bangla Marketing Corporation, was named the district magistrate of Birbhum, it said.

Vijay Bharti was posted as director of the tourism department with additional chargers of the ADB projects of PHE department, the order said.