Harsh Gupta, 20 other IAS officers re-transferred; N Prakash back in DK as Deputy Commissioner

Mangalore, May 12: As many as 21 IAS officers, who had been transferred, last month, when the Assembly election process began across Karnataka, have been re-transferred by the state government.

With this Harsh Gupta, who had replaced N Prakash as the Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district, is once again vacating the post to his predecessor.

The officers who have been re-transferred are – B?N Krishnaiah, DC, Mandya; N Jayaram, DC, Belgaum; J?C?Prakash, DC, Bangalore Urban; F?M Jamadar, DC, Yadgir; N?S?Prasanna Kumar, DC, Gulbarga, V?P Ikkeri, DC, Chitradurga, N Prakash, DC, Dakshina Kannada and Sriram Reddy, DC, Ramnagar; Harsh Gupta, Commissioner, Labour department; Naveenraj Singh, Commissioner, Social Welfare department; Manish Moudgil, Director, MGNREGA; Hemalatha, Director, Planning, Grameen Jivanadhar Uttejan Society, Bangalore; V?Ponnuraj, Commissioner, Land Records department; Ajai Nagbhushan, CEO, Mysore ZP; Anbukumar, MD, Mysore Minerals; Jagadish, Director, Horticulture department; Ujjwal Kumar Ghosh, CEO, Bidar ZP; Rajendra Cholan, MD, Hescom; Shashikanth Senthil, CEO, Shimoga ZP, V?Shankar, CEO, Belgaum ZP.

As many as 12 IAS officers, all KAS cadre, who were working as deputy commissioners were transferred on the Election Commission's direction and were replaced by direct IAS recruits.

The KAS promotees had approached the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) questioning their transfer. After the CAT stayed the transfers, the EC had petitioned the High Court, which had ruled that once the election process was completed, the officers should to be posted back.

Accordingly, the government on Saturday transferred these officers to the posts they had held earlier. However, Mysore Deputy Commissioner C?Shika will continue in the post till the elections are held to the Periyapatna Assembly constituency.