Jharkhand Government Reshuffles 39 IFoS Officers

The Jharkhand government has carried out a major administrative reshuffle involving 39 Indian Forest Service (IFoS) officers. Among the major appointments, Rajkumar Bajpai (1994 batch) has been posted as APCCF, Research and Training; Jabber Singh (1995 batch) as APCCF, CAMPA; Karma Jimpa Bhutia (1997 batch) as APCCF, Human Resource Development; Siddharth Tripathi (1999 batch) as Managing Director, Jharkhand State Forest Development Corporation; and S.R. Natesh has been assigned responsibility for the Vigilance division.

P.R. Naidu (2008 batch) has been promoted to Chief Conservator of Forests and posted as Regional Chief Conservator of Forests, Ranchi, with additional charge of the Director of Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park. Dr. V. Baskaran has been assigned forest genetics and related responsibilities, while Dr. R. Thanga Pandian has received additional charge of the Small Forest Development Corporation, Hazaribagh.

Other senior-level changes include Mamta Priyadarshi, Saba Alam Ansari, Abhishek Kumar, Pravesh Agrawal, Kumar Ashish, Dr. Vijay Shankar Dubey, Saurabh Chandra, Vinay Kant Mishra, Vikas Kumar Ujjwal and Satyam Kumar.

At the divisional level, Aviroop Sinha has been posted as DFO, Latehar; Mukesh Kumar as DFO, Dumka; Vikas Paliwal as DFO, Hazaribagh West; Rahul Kumar as DFO, Bokaro; Satvik as DFO, Gumla; Rahul Meena as DFO, Ranchi; Anuradha Mishra as DFO, Lohardaga; Mohit Kumar Bansal as DFO, Jamtara; Navneet B.R. as DFO, Giridih West; and Shwetabh Suman as DFO, Dhanbad.

The reshuffle also covers Aditya Narayan, Nitish Kumar, Saumitra Shukla, Ajinkya Devidas Bankar, Ebin Benny Abraham, Ahmed Belal Anwar, Pushkar Kale, Shinde Sandeep Karbhari, Adarsh Sharan and Anshuman, among other officers, with assignments across forest divisions, wildlife management, training and development projects.

Shrikant Verma, who was serving as DFO, Ranchi, has been placed on the waiting-for-posting list, with Rahul Meena taking over the Ranchi division.