Yogi govt rejigs bureaucracy, 80 officers transferred in a fortnight

Looking to give a fresh push to development projects and galvanise officers to achieve targets, the Yogi Adityanath government has been carrying out a shake-up in the state bureaucracy since the start of the New Year, transferring around 80 officers within a fortnight and changing the responsibilities of a dozen others.

- HT Correspondent

LUCKNOW:

To convey that bureaucrats should gear up to complete tasks on schedule, the "achievers" have been assigned key posts while the non-performers have been shunted.

The promotion of the 95 IAS officers to the principal secretary and secretary-level in December has also necessitated the bureaucratic reshuffle.

In the latest such reshuffle, the state government transferred 31 IAS officers on late Thursday night, sending three officers -- Lucknow district magistrate Suryapal Gangwar, Kanpur DM Rakesh Kumar Singh and Barabanki DM Satyendra Kumar to the chief minister's secretariat as secretary and special secretary respectively.