Gujarat govt reshuffles 80 IAS officers

A total of 80 IAS officers, including Additional chief secretaries, 10 district collectors and municipal commissioners were reshuffled Friday in Gujarat, which is one of the largest transfers of bureaucrats undertaken by the Vijay Rupani-government. The cities of Surat, Rajkot and Vadodara will get new municipal commissioners while Sanjay Prasad has been appointed as the State Election Commissioner. Prasad is a 1986 batch IAS officer.
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The transfers have come ahead of elections to the local self-government bodies due next year.The senior-most of those transferred was Punamchand Parmar (1985 batch), Additional chief secretary (ACS) Health and Family Welfare Department, who has been transferred and appointed as ACS, agriculture, farmers welfare and cooperation department in place of Sanjay Prasad.

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