Mayawati carried out a major administrative reshuffling in her secretariat creating the post of a cabinet secretary and appointing her principal secretaries.
LUCKNOW: Within hours of taking over as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati carried out a major reshuffle in the state's police set-up and overhauled the Chief Minister's secretariat creating the post of a cabinet secretary and appointing two principal secretaries.
Mayawati also cracked the whip suspending three officials, including two IAS officers, and ordered an inquiry against a retired engineer on the charge of neglecting the upkeep of a park, her dream project, named after Dalit icon B R Ambedkar.
With the Chief Minister putting restoration of law and order on top of her priroty list, a total of 97 IPS officers, including twelve IGs, 27 DIGs, 29 district police chiefs (SPs/SSPs), were transferred.
Among the IGs shifted were Dilip Trivedi from DGP office to Gorakhpur, K L Meena from Gorakhpur to Meerut, Gurbachan Lal, from Economic Offences Wing in Lucknow to Bareilly, A K D Diwedi, assistant to DGP to Kanpur, S N Singh from Human Rights cell to Allahabad, Arvind Kumar Jain from EOW to Lucknow and Daya Shankar Singh from Lucknow to Anti-Corruption Wing.
The DIGs of Mirzapur, Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Faizabad and Gorakhpur, Azamgarh and Varanasi have also been transferred as were SSPs of Meerut, Lucknow, Mathura, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur Etawah and Faizabad.
Mayawati appointed Shashank Shekhar Singh as the cabinet secretary and vice chairman of the state planning comission and appointed Shailesh Krishna and V K Sharma, both senior IAS officers, as her Principal Secretaries.
Rohit Nandan, N S Ravi, Arun Sinha, Anoop Pandey and J S Deepak (all IAS officers) have been appointed as secretaries to the Chief Minister.
Navneet Sehgal, a senior IAS officer now on deputation to the Centre, was being brought back to the state as he is likely to be made a secretary to the Chief Minister, according to official sources here.
Besides the reshuffle in the bureaucracy and overhaul of the Chief Minister's secretariat, Mayawati suspended Vice-Chairman of Lucknow Development Authority B.B.Singh, former Principal Secretary, PWD, S.K.Agarwal, Lucknow Development Authority chief engineer D.R.Yadav for allegedly neglecting the upkeep of Ambedkar Park here.
She took the action after visiting the park this evening and also ordered an inquiry against retired chief engineer of Rajkiya Nrman Nigam R.S.Yadav for "utter neglect" of the park, which she said symbolised BSP ideology.
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