After Maharashtra, Rajasthan Govt Transfers Over 100 IAS Officers in Major Reshuffle

Jaipur: The government of Rajasthan has transferred over 100 IAS officers including the Jaipur and Banswara Divisional Commissioners. This administrative reshuffle comes after Maharashtra announced the transfer of over 20 IPS officers and probationers.

Rajasthan Govt Transfers Over 100 IAS Officers

The Rajasthan government has transferred more than 100 IAS officers, including the divisional commissioners of Jaipur and Banswara, in a major administrative reshuffle.

According to a personnel department order late on Thursday, 96 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers were transferred while 10 awaiting orders have got a new posting.

Additional Chief Secretary (Finance) Akhil Arora and Principal Secretary (Home) Anand Kumar, however, have retained their positions.

Arora was also the additional chief secretary in the finance department during the previous Congress government. Kumar has been in the home department since 2022.

List of Rajasthan Officers Transferred

Among those transferred in the reshuffle are the divisional commissioners of Jaipur and Banswara, besides the collectors of 13 districts, including Jaipur.

Shubhra Singh, who was posted as additional chief secretary (health), will take over as roadways chairperson. There had been discussions about replacing her for a long time.

Gayatri A Rathore has been transferred from the tourism department and will take charge as principal secretary in the health department.

Bhaskar Sawant will be the principal secretary of the public health engineering department. Samit Sharma has been transferred to the animal husbandry department.

Shreya Guha, the additional chief secretary in the transport department, has been transferred to the rural development department.

Vaibhav Galaria, who was the principal secretary in the agriculture department, will take charge as the principal secretary in the urban development and housing department. He replaces T Ravikant, who has been posted as principal secretary in the mines and petroleum department.

Bhanu Prakash Eturu, the chairperson of all three power companies in the state, will take over as secretary in the tribal development department. He has been replaced by Aarti Dogra as the discoms chief. Dogra was posted in the Chief Minister's Office during the previous Ashok Gehlot dispensation.

Neeraj K Pawan, the Banswara divisional commissioner, has been appointed as administrative secretary in the sports department. Rashmi Gupta will take charge as Jaipur divisional commissioner in place of Aarushi Ajay Malik.

Jitendra Soni, the new Jaipur collector, was given additional charges as collector of Dudu and Jaipur Rural. 

Maharashtra Govt Transfers Over 20 IPS Officers and Probationers

In a major reshuffle in the police establishment, the Maharashtra government on Thursday transferred nearly two dozen Superintendent of Police (SP), Deputy Commissioner-rank officers and IPS probationers.

As per transfer orders issued by the state home department, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Raj Tilak Roshan has been shifted as Assistant Inspector General (Law and Order) at the Maharashtra police headquarters in Mumbai.

IPS officer Tejaswi Satpute, who was serving as a DCP in Mumbai, has been moved to Pune city.

Likewise, Sandeep Singh Gill, who was a DCP in Pune city, has been transferred as SP (Pune Rural) in the same district. He will replace Pankaj Deshmukh, who has been moved to Mumbai.

Sudhakar Pathare, who was a DCP in adjoining Thane city, has been moved to the Mumbai police.

DCP Laxmikant Patil, who was Principal of the Police Training Centre in Nagpur, has been transferred as SP (cyber), according to the home department orders.

Rohidas Pawar, who was a DCP at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in central Maharashtra , has been posted as DIG (Government Railway Police) in Pune.

Besides them, eight IPS probationers have been transferred to various districts as Sub-Divisional Police Officers, said the orders.

(Inputs from PTI)