Major bureaucratic reshuffle in Home Ministry

NEW DELHI: The Home Ministry today carried out a major reshuffle by shifting officials handling crucial internal security and Naxal divisions and appointed two new Joint Secretary-level officers.

Rakesh Singh, a 1989 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre, who was handling internal security wing of the MHA, has been shifted to Union Territory division, official sources said.

M A Ganapathy, a 1986 batch IPS officer of Uttarakhand cadre, will now be in charge internal security division. Ganapathy is now Joint Secretary (Left Wing Extremism) in the Ministry.

Dilip Kumar, a 1995 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre, has been appointed Joint Secretary in charge of Left Wing Extremism Affairs, they said.

G K Dwivedi, a 1993 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, was appointed Joint Secretary (Foreigner) in the Home Ministry, the sources said.