West Bengal : Major bureaucratic reshuffle in IAS cadre

The Mamata Banerjee government on Monday went for a major IAS reshuffle after HK Dwivedi (IAS:1988:WB) was made the chief secretary of the state.

The names of the officers and their postings are as follows :

1. H K Dwivedi (IAS:1988:WB) : Chief Secretary, West Bengal.
2. B P Gopalika (IAS:1989:WB) : Additional Chief Secretary, Home & Hill Affairs Deptt. with additional charge of Additional Chief Secretary, P & AR Deptt. and MD, WB Highway Dev. Corporation.
3. Naveen Prakash (IAS:1987:WB) : Additional Chief Secretary, Public Works Department.
4. A R Bardhan (IAS:1989:WB) : Additional Chief Secretary, Public Health Engineering Department with additional charges of Additional Chief Secretary, Animal Resources Development Department and Commissioner, Jalpaiguri Division.
5. Atri Bhattacharya (IAS:1989:WB) : Additional Chief Secretary, Fisheries Department.
6. Prabhat Kumar Mishra (IAS:1993:WB) : Principal Secretary, Irrigation & Waterways Deptt. with additional charge of Water Resources Investigation and Development and Project Director, ADMI Project.
7. Roshni Sen (IAS:1993:WB) : Principal Secretary, Mass Education Extension and Library Services Department with additional charge of Member Secretary, West Bengal Pollution Control Board in the rank of Principal Secretary.
8. Pritha Sarkar (IAS:2002:WB) : Commissioner, Presidency Division with additional charge of Secretary, Self Help Group & Self Employment Department.
9. Jagdish Prasad Meena (IAS:2004:WB) : Secretary, Chief Secretary.
10. Saddam Navas (IAS:2018:WB) : SDO, Rampurhat, Birbhum.
11. Shekhar Kumar Chaudhary (IAS:2018:WB) : SDO, Durgapur, Paschim Bardhaman.