Chhattisgarh Govt Transfers 41 IAS & 20 IPS Officers; IAS Jitendra Kumar Shukla Made Mission Director, Jal Jeevan Mission

Raipur: In a significant administrative overhaul, the Chhattisgarh government has announced the transfer and fresh postings of 41 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, including IAS Jitendra Kumar Shukla and 20 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, marking a sweeping bureaucratic reshuffle across various departments and districts.

As per the official notification issued by the state’s General Administration Department, senior IAS Jitendra Kumar Shukla (2011 batch) has been appointed as Mission Director of the central government’s flagship Jal Jeevan Mission.

Other key IAS appointments include:

IAS Topeshwar Verma (2005 batch) appointed Chairman, Board of Revenue.
IAS Janak Prasad Pathak (2007 batch) appointed Special Secretary, Forest Department.
IAS Shikha Rajput (2008 batch) appointed as Commissioner, Medical Education, with the additional charge of AYUSH.
IAS Dr. Priyanka Shukla (2009 batch) appointed Director, National Rural Health Mission.
IAS Kiran Kaushal (2009 batch) appointed Managing Director, Markfed & Civil Supplies Corporation.
IAS Sunil Kumar Jain (2009 batch) appointed Commissioner, Bilaspur Division.
IAS K.D. Kunjam (2009 batch) – Member, Board of Revenue, Bilaspur.
IAS Awanish Kumar Sharan (2009 batch) appointed Commissioner, Town and Village Investment and Housing Board.
IAS Kartikeya Goyal (2010 batch) appointed Director, Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department.
IAS Dharmesh Sahu (2010 batch) appointed Special Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Development Department.
IAS Padum Singh Elma (2010 batch) appointed Director, Women and Child Development Department.
IAS Ramesh Kumar Sharma (2010 batch) appointed Special Secretary, Home Department.
IAS Sarveshwar Narendra Bhure (2011 batch) appointed Collector, Rajnandgaon.
IAS Remijius Ekka (2011 batch) appointed Director, Urban Administration & Development.
IAS Sanjay Agarwal (2012 batch) appointed Collector, Bilaspur.
IAS Divya Umesh Mishra (2012 batch) appointed Collector, Balod.
IAS Saransh Mitter (2012 batch) appointed Commissioner, Tribal and Scheduled Castes Development Department.
IAS Rajat Bansal (2012 batch) appointed Director, Geology and Mining Department; Director, State Mineral Development. Corporation; Special Secretary, Good Governance and Convergence Department.
IAS Taran Prakash Sinha (2012 batch) appointed Commissioner, MNREGA; Director, PMAY-Rural.
IAS Iffat Ara (2012 batch) appointed Additional Divisional Commissioner, Raipur & Durg Division.
IAS Indrajit Chandrawal (2013 batch) appointed Collector, Khairagarh-Chhuikhadan-Gandai.
IAS Jagdish Sonkar (2013 batch) appointed Managing Director, Inter-Governmental Cooperative Finance and Development. Corporation; Director, Tribal Research and Training Institute.
IAS Kundan Kumar (2014 batch) appointed Collector, Mungeli.
IAS Rituraj Raghuvanshi (2014 batch) appointed Director, Public Instruction, SCERT; State Literacy Mission.
IAS Nupur Rashi Panna (2015 batch) appointed Collector, Kondagaon.
IAS Vijay Dayaram K. (2015 batch) appointed Director, Technical Education, Employment & Training; CEO, State Skill Development Agency.
IAS Sukhnath Ahirwar (2016 batch) appointed Secretary, State Election Commission; Joint Secretary, Sports and Youth Welfare Department.
IAS Sanjay Kannauje (2016 batch) appointed Collector, Sarangarh-Bilaigarh.
IAS Rahul Dev (2016 batch) appointed Director, Agriculture; Joint Secretary, Department of Agriculture.
IAS Kunal Dudawat (2017 batch) appointed Collector, Dantewada.
IAS Mayank Chaturvedi (2017 batch) appointed Collector, Raigad.
IAS Akash Chhikara (2017 batch) appointed Deputy Secretary, Department of Environment and Housing; CEO, RDA.
IAS Chandrakant Verma (2017 batch) appointed Director, Veterinary Services; CEO, State Catchment Area Management Agency
IAS Janmejay Mahobe (2022 batch) appointed Collector, Janjgir-Champa.
IAS Deepak Agarwal appointed Controller, Food and Drug Administration Department.
IAS Dr. Santosh Kumar Dewangan appointed Commissioner, Higher Education, and Managing Director, RUSA.
IAS Arvind Kumar Ekka appointed Joint Secretary, Revenue & Disaster Management; Director, Printing & Stationery.
IAS Santan Devi Jangde appointed Joint Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department.
IAS Ajay Kumar Agarwal appointed Managing Director, State Seed and Agriculture Development Corporation (with Additional Charge).

Key IPS Officer Transfers include:

IPS Pawan Dev (1995 batch) appointed Additional Chairman and Managing Director, Chhattisgarh Police Housing Corporation, Raipur.
IPS Ankit Kumar Garg (2004 batch) appointed IG, SIB, Police Headquarters, Nava Raipur.
IPS Dhruv Gupta (2005 batch) appointed IG, CID, Nava Raipur (charge effective after April 30, 2025), with additional responsibility for CCTNS/SCRB and Technical Services.
IPS Deepak Kumar Jha (2007 batch) appointed IG, Surguja Range.
IPS Abhishek Shandilya (2007 batch) appointed IG, Rajnandgaon Range.
IPS Balaji Rao Somawar (2007 batch) appointed IG, Law & Order, Special Branch, Police Headquarters, Nava Raipur.
IPS Ajatashatru Bahadur Singh (2011 batch) appointed DIG, Intelligence, Special Branch.
IPS Vivek Shukla (2012 batch) appointed AIG, CID, Police Headquarters.
IPS Rajesh Kumar Agarwal (2012 batch) appointed SP, Surguja.
IPS Vijay Agarwal (2012 batch) appointed SP, Durg.
IPS Bhavana Gupta (2014 batch) appointed SP, Baloda Bazar-Bhatapara.
IPS Suraj Singh (2015 batch) appointed SP, Dhamtari.
IPS Trilok Bansal (2016 batch) appointed SP, STF, Baghera.
IPS Anjaneya Varshi (2018 batch) appointed SP, Sarangarh-Bilaigarh.
IPS Yogesh Kumar Patel (2018 batch) appointed SP, Balod.
IPS S.R. Bhagat appointed SP, Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi.
IPS Vijay Pandey appointed SP, Janjgir-Champa.

This move is part of the government’s broader efforts to realign administrative leadership across crucial departments and districts for improved governance.