"While Gopalakrishnan's action sowed disunity within the All India Service Cadre, Prasanth's conduct undermined the public image of the state's administrative machinery," the government alleged.
S Siddharth, a 1991-batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, has been made the Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) of the state Home Department, which is headed by the CM.
Besides, three Punjab Civil Services officers Bikramjit Singh Shergill, Ismat Vijay Singh and Balwinder Singh have been given new posting orders.
The transfer orders were issued late on Saturday night.
According to transfers list issued by the government, Gorakhpur Chief Development Officer Indrajit Singh is now the new municipal commissioner of Lucknow Municipal Corporation.
Tina Dabi, 28, is engaged to Pradeep Gawande, 41, a fellow IAS officer. Dabi was earlier married to IAS officer Athar Aamir Khan and divorced in 2020.
Six of these IAS officers – Renu Raj, Divya S Iyer, Haritha V. Kumar, P.K. Jayasree, Sheeba George and Geetha A - are Kerala natives.
As many as 19 officers have been appointed to the post of secretaries, additional secretaries and joint secretaries among others.
Officers in position as on January 1, 2017, is 5,004 against the total authorised strength of 6,500, making a vacancy of 1,496.
The Reserve Bank of India’s governor today has proposed to separate the chairman and managing director or CEO position in PSU banks. Sharing their views and possible reason behind this move to CNBC-TV18, experts KR Kamath, chairman of Punjab National Bank and BD Narang, ex-chairman of Oriental Bank of Commerce read the road ahead.