Rajasthan : 21 IAS transferred, Niranjan Kumar Arya appointed new Chief Secretary

The Rajasthan government on Saturday appointed Niranjan Kumar Arya as the new Chief Secretary of the State. He was currently serving as Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, Excise & Taxation Department. The State government has requested extension of 03 months for outgoing Chief Secretary Rajeeva Swarup but it did not receive centre’s nod.

In total 21 IAS officers have been transferred. The names of the officers and their postings are as follows :

1. Niranjan Kumar Arya (IAS:1989:RJ) : Chief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan.
2. Venu Gupta (IAS:1987:RJ) : Director, Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board.
3. Dr Subodh Agrawal (IAS:1988:RJ) : Chairman & Managing Director (CMD), Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Ltd (RRECL), Jaipur.
4. Rajeshwar Singh (IAS:1989:RJ) : CMD, Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation, Jaipur.
5. Akhil Arora (IAS:1993:RJ) : Principal Secretary, Finance, Excise and Taxation Department.
6. Shikhar Agrawal (IAS:1993:RJ) : Principal Secretary, Tribal Regional Development Department, Jaipur.
7. Anand Kumar (IAS:1994:RJ) : Principal Secretary, Revenue, Colonization, Military Welfare Department, Disaster Management, Assistance and Civil Protection Department, Jaipur.
8. Ajitabh Sharma (IAS:1996:RJ) : Principal Secretary, Department of Mines and Petroleum, Information Technology and Communications
   Department.
9. Dinesh Kumar (IAS:1996:RJ) : Principal Secretary, Energy Department, Director, Discom, CMD, Rajasthan State Electricity Broadcasting Corporation Ltd., and CMD, Rajasthan Energy Development Corporation Ltd.
10. Rajesh Kumar Yadav (IAS:1996:RJ) : Principal Secretary, Public Works Department and Director, Rajasthan State Road Development and Construction Corporation Ltd., Jaipur.
11. Navin Mahajan (IAS:1997:RJ) : Secretary, Water Resources Department, State Water Resources Planning Department and Indira Gandhi Canal Department, Public Health and Engineering, and Ground Water Department.
12. T Ravikant (IAS:1998:RJ) : Secretary, Finance (Revenue) Department.
13. Manju Rajpal (IAS:2000:RJ) : Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department and Commissioner, Panchayati Raj, Rajasthan, Jaipur.
14. Navin Jain (IAS:2001:RJ) : Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and Planning, Planning (Manpower and Gazetteers) and Statistics Department, Rajasthan, Jaipur.
15. Dr Prithvi Raj (IAS:2002:RJ) : Secretary, Finance (Budget) Department.
16. Siddharth Mahajan (IAS:2003:RJ) : Secretary, Medical and Health and Family Welfare Department.
17. Dr Veena Pradhan (IAS:2003:RJ) : Divisional Commissioner, Ajmer.
18. Dr Rajesh Sharma (IAS:2003:RJ) : Secretary, Ayurved and Indian Medicine Department and Managing Director, Rajasthan Medical Services Corporation Ltd.
19. Dr Arushi Ajey Malik (IAS:2005:RJ) : Special Secretary, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Cattle Department and Director, Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Federation, Rajasthan, Jaipur.
20. Dr Om Prakash (IAS:2006:RJ) : Commissioner, Agriculture and Horticulture Department, Rajasthan, Jaipur.
21. Yagyamitra Singh Dev (IAS:2007:RJ) : Managing Director, Jaipur City Transport Services Ltd., Rajasthan, Jaipur.