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LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government carried out a major administrative reshuffle late Friday night, transferring 38 Indian Administrative Service officers, including the District Magistrates of five districts. The transfers, executed ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections, cover key postings across district administrations, development authorities, municipal corporations, and state departments.
The five districts receiving new District Magistrates are Sitapur, Bijnor, Siddharthnagar, Maharajganj, and Muzaffarnagar. According to the official transfer list, Lucknow Development Authority Vice Chairman Prathamesh Kumar has been appointed as the new District Magistrate of Sitapur. He replaces Dr. Raja Ganapati R, who has been posted as Director of the State Urban Development Agency. Special Secretary to the Chief Minister Anuj Singh has been named the new Vice Chairman of the Lucknow Development Authority.
In Bijnor, Joginder Singh, who was serving as Special Secretary for Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply, has been appointed District Magistrate, replacing Umesh Pratap Singh, who moves to the Public Works Department as Special Secretary. Meanwhile, the government swapped the District Magistrates of Maharajganj and Siddharthnagar. Maharajganj District Magistrate Gaurav Singh Sogarwal has been posted to Siddharthnagar, while Siddharthnagar District Magistrate Shivsharanappa GN takes over in Maharajganj. In Muzaffarnagar, Greater Noida Additional Chief Executive Officer Sunil Kumar Singh has been appointed District Magistrate in place of Umesh Mishra, who has been posted as Special Secretary in the Urban Development Department.
Changes in Development Authorities and Municipal Corporations
The reshuffle includes substantial changes across major industrial and urban development authorities. Vikramaditya Singh Malik has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Meerut Development Authority, while Sanjay Kumar Meena has been posted as Additional Chief Executive Officer of the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority. Krishna Kumar Singh and Shatrohan Vaishya have also been appointed Additional Chief Executive Officers at the Yamuna Authority.
In Noida and Greater Noida, Preeti Jaiswal has been appointed Additional Chief Executive Officer of the Noida Authority, while Praveen Verma and Nupur Goyal have been given charge as Additional Chief Executive Officers of Greater Noida. Meanwhile, Saumya Srivastava has been relieved of the charge of Officer on Special Duty in Greater Noida.
Municipal leadership in key cities has also been altered. Gorakhpur Chief Development Officer Shashwat Tripurari has been appointed Municipal Commissioner of Varanasi, and Himanshu Nagpal has been named Municipal Commissioner of Ghaziabad. Manjulata has been posted as Additional Municipal Commissioner in Moradabad.
New Chief Development Officers in Seven Districts
The state government also appointed new Chief Development Officers across seven districts. Abhishek Kumar has been posted as Chief Development Officer of Gorakhpur, and Rajesh Kumar has been given the role in Ayodhya. Sandeep Kumar takes charge as Chief Development Officer of Meerut, while Poonam Nigam has been appointed to the post in Fatehpur. Additionally, Shishir Kumar Singh has been named Chief Development Officer of Shravasti, Shailendra Kumar Singh in Aligarh, and Yogendra Kumar in Firozabad.
Divisional and Departmental Postings
At the divisional level, Vandana Tripathi has been appointed Additional Commissioner of Saharanpur division, Manoj Kumar-1 of Varanasi division, Atul Kumar of Bareilly division, and Pratibha Singh of Kanpur division.
In other state-level postings, Pawan Kumar Meena has been made Special Secretary for Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply, and Srilakshmi VS has been appointed Special Secretary for Women Welfare. Dr. Nitin Madan and Mahendra Bahadur Singh have been appointed Joint Managing Directors of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam (Urban), with Singh also holding the charge of Director, SUDA. Pratyush Pandey has been posted as Additional Project Director of UPEIDA and Additional Director of Mandi Parishad, Sunil Kumar Chaudhary as Additional Land Reforms Commissioner at the Board of Revenue in Lucknow, and Shahid Ahmed as Additional Director at the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Academy of Administration.
