With the new government coming to power in West Bengal after 15 years, it is now the turn of the state bureaucracy to feel the pangs of restructuring, and that process has begun. The new BJP government under Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari carried out a fresh bureaucratic reshuffle on Sunday, appointing two IAS officers and seven State Civil Services (Executive) officers to the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO).
As per govt notifications, IAS officers P Promoth (IAS:2019:WB) and Navneet Mittal (IAS:2020:WB) were appointed as joint secretaries in the CMO with immediate effect.
While Promoth was serving as joint secretary in the MSME and Textiles Department, Mittal was posted as Additional District Magistrate (ADM) of the Paschim Medinipur district.
In addition, the Suvendu govt also appointed seven West Bengal Civil Services (Executive) officers as senior deputy secretaries in the new CMO. These officials were currently serving in departments such as Housing, Fisheries, and Land Reforms, along with those posted across various districts, and were among those reassigned in the latest reshuffle.
The seven WBCS (Executive) officers, who were posted as Senior Deputy Secretaries in the new CMO, are Samrat Chakravarti (WBCS Executive 2004), Amartya Chakraborty (WBCS Exe. 2007), Ayan Dutta Gupta (WBCS Exe. 2007), Rajarshi Nath (WBCS Exe. 2009), Surajit Roy (WBCS Exe. 2011), Pramit Das (WBCS Exe. 2009), and Deep Bhaduri (WBCS Exe. 2008).
This latest round of reshuffling comes a day after the new govt transferred or reassigned 16 officers who had been serving in the CMO during the Trinamool Congress (TMC) regime.
In the first round soon after the swearing-in of the new govt on Saturday, retired IAS officer Subrata Gupta was appointed advisor to the Chief Minister, while Shantanu Bala was named the chief minister’s private secretary.
This latest round of appointments is part of a broader administrative overhaul that is going to be undertaken by the new dispensation in the state.
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