Blitz Bureau
KOLKATA: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled West Bengal Government has carried out a major bureaucratic reshuffle in the state, transferring as many as 17 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers at one go.
As per the order issued by the state Personnel & Administrative Reforms Department, a copy of which is available with IANS, the 17 transferred IAS officers include departmental secretaries, municipal commissioners and additional district magistrates.
Sources in the state secretariat at Nabanna said the transfers have been ordered to add pace to the general administrative functioning and to strengthen district-level administrative activities.
As per the notification, Sujoy Sarkar, a 2010-batch IAS officer, has been transferred from the Commissioner of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation and posted as the Commissioner of the state Textiles & Sericulture Department and the Managing Director of state-run entity, Tantuja.
Sarkar has been replaced by Ravi Agarwal, a 2017-batch IAS officer who was currently posted as the Additional District Magistrate (ADM) of tribal-dominated Purulia district.
