IAS officers reshuffled in Punjab

In a major administrative reshuffle, the Punjab government issued transfer and new posting orders of 26 IAS officers. K A P Sinha has been designated as ACS-cum-Financial Commissioner, Taxation and in addition ACS, Finance, while Vikas Pratap takes charge as PS, Planning. Similarly, Arun Sekhri will be posted as Labour Commissioner; Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu as Secretary, Home Affairs and Justice; DPS Kharbanda as Director, Technical Education and Industrial Training; Rajiv Prashar as Special Secretary, Forest and Wildlife; Vipul Ujwal as Special Secretary, Water Supply and Sanitation and HOD, Department of Water Supply and Sanitation; Gurpreet Singh Khaira as Director, Rural Development & Panchayats and ex-officio Special Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayats and in addition Mission Director, Mahatma Handhi Sarbat Vikas Yojana; Babita was appointed as Executive Director, Scheduled Castes Land Development and Finance Corporation and ED, BACKFINCO; Mrs Madhvi Kataria as Special Secretary, Higher Education and Languages; B Srinivasan as Director, Mines and Geology; Mrs Poonamdeep Kaur as Managing Director, Pepsu Road Transport Corporation, Patiala; Komal Mittal as Additional Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs; Abhijeet Kaplish as Additional Excise and Taxation Commissioner; Sandeep Kumar as Additional Deputy Commissioner, Hoshiarpur; Upkar Singh  as Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mansa; Himanshu Jain, Additional Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, has been given an additional charge of Additional Chief Executive Officer, Punjab Bureau of Investment Promotion; Kumar Saurabh Raj takes charge as Special Secretary, Excise and Taxation; Ramvir as MD, MARKFED; Sumeet Jarangal as Director, Information & PR and in additon Director, Civil Aviation and in addition Special Secretary, Protocol and in addition Director, Hospitality; Mrs Palavi as Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Bathinda; Sandeep Rishi as Chief Administrator, Jalandhar Development Authority; Rahul as Additional Deputy Commissioner (General), Bathinda; Varjeet Walia as Additional Deputy Commissioner (Rural Development), Sangrur; Gulpreet Singh Aulakh as Additional Deputy Commissioner (Urban Development), Sri Muktsar Sahib and Mrs Sonia Thind is now Additional Deputy Commissioner (Urban Development), Roopnagar.