The Chhattisgarh government has transferred eight IAS officers and assigned additional responsibilities to three others in an effort to enhance governance and streamline the execution of development projects across the state.
In a major reshuffle in the police department, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Sunday transferred police chiefs of ten districts across the Union Territory.
Touted to be a pre-assembly poll placement exercise, this is the second major transfer list after the state government reshuffled its 74 IAS officers and 15 new district OSDs on May 15.
The Revenue Department has been taken away from Rajendra Trivedi while Road and Building Ministry has been taken away from Purnesh Modi.
This comes in the wake of former minister Partha Chatterjee who was arrested by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the SSC recruitment scam case.
Chief Minister Bommai, after concluding his recent New Delhi trip, on Thursday said that that the matter of cabinet expansion had been discussed with the party leaders in detail.
He may take resignations of the ministers who are going to be dropped. He will assure them that their services will be utilised for other purposes like strengthening the party organisation.
Mr Pulok Roy, state Public Health Engineering minister has been given the charge of Panchayat department following Subrata Mukherjee's death. State Labour minister Becharam Manna was given additional charge as MoS Panchayat department.
Former Rajasthan Deputy CM Sachin Pilot's camp has been demanding a cabinet reshuffle for a long time now. Apart from this camp, even MLAs from the BSP have been raising the demand for cabinet berths and political appointments.
It is said that Singh Deo may be allotted the finance portfolio, while the final decision will be taken by Sonia Gandhi and she is likely to meet the leaders after a truce formula is evolved.
