Nine IAS officers have been transferred and given new postings in Madhya Pradesh. Swatantra Kumar Singh has been appointed as Secretary, Backward Classes & Minorities Welfare, while Lalit Kumar Dahima was made Additional Secretary, Cottage & Village Industries and Mrs Uma Maheshwari R is now Additional Mission Director, Rajya Shiksha Kendra, Bhopal. Similarly, Shivam Verma will be posted as Additional Commissioner, Urban Administration and Development; Kailash Wankhede as Additional Commissioner, Urban Administration and Development; Lokesh Kumar Ramchand Jangid as Deputy Secretary, Environment; Ms Kajal Jawla as Deputy Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Development and Additional CEO, MP Rozgar Guarantee Parishad; Akash Singh as Deputy Secretary, Public Health Engineering and Abhay Singh Oharia will take over as Deputy Secretary, Home.