8 IAS officers get new posts after rejig

Ranchi: The state government on Friday issued orders transferring and posting eight Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers. Ranchi sub-divisional officer Lokesh Mishra has been posted as Ranchi’s additional district magistrate (law and order). Town commissioner of Adityapur Municipal Corporation Sashidhar Mandal has been appointed as special secretary of the scheduled tribe, scheduled caste, minority and backward class welfare department.
Several IAS officers awaiting posting have been given assignments in different departments. Basarat Qayyum has been made the joint secretary in the women, child development and social security department. Chandan Kumar Jha has been appointed as Dhanbad ADM (law and order). Karn Satyarthi has been made director of the land acquisition department. Megha Bhardwaj has been appointed as the joint secretary of the planning and finance department, while Vishal Sagar has been posted as the joint secretary of the personnel and administrative reforms department and Himanshu Mohan has been made the deputy director of the Shri Krishna Institute of Public Administration.