A number of IAS officers have been given new portfolios in Bihar. Accordingly, Mrs Harjot Kaur Bamhara has been appointed as ACS, Social Welfare with additional charge of MD, Bihar State Women and Child Development Corporation while Santosh Kumar Mall was made Principal Secretary, Water Resources with continuing additional charge of Resident Commissioner, Bihar Bhawan, New Delhi and Prem Singh Meena is now Divisional Commissioner, Gaya. Similarly, Mrs Pratima Satish Kumar Verma has been appointed as Secretary, Science & Technology with continuing additional charge of Bihar Administrative Reforms Mission Society, Patna; Sarwanan as Divisional Commissioner, Muzaffarpur; Pankaj Kumar Pal, Secretary, Energy; Lokesh Kumar Singh as Secretary, Finance with additional charge of Secretary, Rural Development; Kundan Kumar as MD, Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority, Patna, in addition; Dr Virendra Prasad Yadav as Special Secretary, Agriculture; Dayanidhan Pandey as Secretary, Arts, Culture, Youth with additional charge of MD, Bihar State Film Development & Finance Corporation; Sandeep Kumar R as Secretary, Small Scale Water Resources with additional charge of Roadways Construction; Dharmendra Singh as Secretary, Cooperative with additional charge of Inquiry Commissioner, GAD; Gopal Meena as Commissioner, Saran division; Jai Singh as Secretary, Resources, Finance Department and Sanjay Kumar Singh was appointed as Secretary, Commercial Taxes with additional charge Commissioner, Commercial Taxes, GST.