33 IAS officers transferred in Madhya Pradesh

BHOPAL: In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Madhya Pradesh government has transferred 33 IAS officers including some collectors and principal secretaries.

An official announcement late last night said here that Praveen Garg would be the new Commissioner for Bhopal, in place of Manoj Srivastava who has been made Principal Secretary of the Revenue Department.

Akash Tripathi who was till now Collector for Gwalior and Pushplata Singh who was Collector for Alirajpur have both been made Additional Secretaries to the Madhya Pradesh government.

Ashok Kumar Singh, Collector, Ashoknagar has been made the new Collector for Katni in place of M Selvendran who has been made Collector, Singrauli.

D D Agrawal, who held the post of Deputy Secretary Housing Environment, is the new Collector for Morena while A K Jain who was till now Deputy Secretary in the PWD is the new Collector for Anooppur.

Other officers who have been affected by the reshuffle include S R Mohanty, Vinod Semwal, Arun Tiwari, Neeraj Mandloi, H L Trivedi and Ramesh Thete.