Over 21 IAS officers in Chhattisgarh have been given new portfolios . Therefore , Manoj Kumar Pingua has been appointed as Principal Resident Commissioner and relieved of the additional charge of the Resident Commissioner, Chhattisgarh Bhawan, New Delhi, where Dr
M Geeta was posted as Resident Commissioner, Chhattisgarh Bhawan, New Delhi and Amrit Kumar Khalkho, Secretary, Labour Department has been given additional charge of Labour Commissioner. Similarly, Dr Kamalpreet Singh, Secretary, School Education Department, has been relieved from the additional charge of Mission Director, Samagra Shiksha and given additional charge of Agriculture Production Commissioner and Secretary, Agriculture Farmers Welfare and Biotechnology Department; Avinash Champawat takes charge as Secretary, Legislative Affairs Department and given additional charge of Commissioner Panchayat; Prasanna R, Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Development Department, holding additional charge of Secretary, Skill Development and Director, Panchayat, has been relieved from the charge of Panchayat Director; Anbalagan Ponnusamy is posted as Secretary, Water Resources Department and given additional charge of Secretary, Tourism, Culture and Religious Trust and Endowment Department; Neelam Namdev Ekka, Secretary, Public Grievances and Redressal Department, has been given the additional charge of Secretary, Sports and Youth Welfare Department; Alex Pal Menon was posted as Director, Chhattisgarh Academy of Administration; Bhuvnesh Yadav as Special Secretary, Higher Education Department with additional charge of Special Secretary, Technical Education and Employment Department and Managing Director, State Seeds and Agriculture Development Corporation; Rajesh Singh Rana as Managing Director, Text Book Corporation with additional charge of Joint Secretary, School Education Department; Narendra Kumar Dugga as Mission Director, Samagra Shiksha; Abhijit Singh as Director, Land Records with additional charge of Joint Secretary, Home Department and Director, Government Printing and Stationery; Ranbir Sharma as Managing Director, State Co-operative Milk Federation with additional responsibility of Joint Secretary, Agriculture Department and Chief Executive Officer, State Watershed Management Agency; Sudhakar Khalkho, Director, Village Industries, holding additional charge of Managing Director, Handicrafts Development Board, has been given additional responsibility of Managing Director Handloom Development and Marketing Association, Raipur; Jagdish Sonkar will be appointed as Deputy Secretary, Forest Department; Rituraj Raghuvanshi as Chief Executive Officer, Raipur Development Authority;
Chandan Sanjay Tripathi as Director, Veterinary Services and Tulika Prajapati has been posted as Deputy Secretary in the Mantralaya.