Gandhinagar: Indian Administrative Service(IAS) officer Jagdish Prasad Gupta (JP Gupta) has been appointed as the Chairman of Gujarat Industries Power Company Ltd (GIPCL) replacing a retired IAS AK Rakesh Gupta is Additional Chief Secretary of Tribal Development Department in the State government at present. An order in this regard is released by the Energy & Petrochemicals department of State government. DeshGujaratRead More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat government has today appointed the 2010 batch India Administrative Service(IAS) officer Anand Patel as Additional Secretary (Budget) in finance department relieving Bhavya Verma of additional charge of the post. Anand Patel was previously the Municipal Commissioner of Rajkot. He was replaced with the new Municipal Commissioner after the tragedy of TRP gamezone fire incident. He was then shifted to General Administration Department. DeshGujaratRead More

Gandhinagar: Banaskantha district has got a new collector. Mihir Patel, IAS (2015) Deputy Municipal Commissionerof Amdavad Municipal Corporation has been transferred and appointed as Collector, Banaskantha replacing Varunkumar Bharanwal. Varunkumar Bharanwal, IAS (2014) is tranferred from the post of district collector of Banaskantha and his services are placed under Government of India as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Commerce & Industry Minsiter Piyush Goyal for a period of four year...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Government of Gujarat has today announced the transfer of 10 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers. With these transfers and appointments, four districts—Narmada, Sabarkantha, Valsad, and Porbandar—have new collectors, and Bhavnagar has a new municipal commissioner. SK Modi, DDO Gandhinagar, has been appointed as Collector of Narmada-Rajpipla. NN Dave, Collector of Sabarkantha, has been transferred and appointed as Collector of Valsad. S.D. Dhanani, DDO Dev...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Government of Gujarat has today announced transfers of 18 officers of Indian Administrative Service(IAS). Among major highlights, Manoj Kumar Das is appointed in the Chief Minister's Office. Pankaj Joshi is given additional charge of ACS Ports & Transport. Mukesh Kumar is out and Sunaina Tomar replaces him as ACS Education. Dr. Jayanti Ravi is back to Gujarat as ACS Revenue. Rajeev Topno is back to Gujarat as Chief Commissioner of State tax. SJ Haidar is out from Industries ...Read More

New Delhi: The President of India has appointed retired Gujarat cadre IAS officer K Kailashnathan as Lt. Governor of Puducherry with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office. This announcement was made late in the evening on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trusted officer K Kailashnathan retired after 11th extension as Gujarat Chief Minister's Chief Principal Secretary last month. Kailashnathan is Chairman of Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd and also supervising Sabarmati...Read More

Gandhinagar: Former Gujarat Additional Chief Secretary (Home) S.K. Nanda passed away in the United States on Saturday at the age of 68. Nanda traveled to the U.S. on July 22 with his wife, Sanjukta, to visit their children. He reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest early Saturday. It is learned that he was receiving treatment for pneumonia at a hospital in Ithaca, New York. A 1978-batch bureaucrat from the Gujarat cadre, Nanda held various positions, including collector of Dang, Vadodara, Pa...Read More

Surat: Suspended IAS officer and former Surat District Collector Ayush Oak has been accused of demanding ₹51 lakh to convert a land parcel to non-agricultural status. In a written complaint, landowners Jayesh Patel and Karthik Patel claim that Ayush Oak and Chitnis Mamlatdar Jignesh Jivani demanded ₹51 lakh to convert the land in Block No. 201 in the Palanpore area to non-agricultural status. The complaint, submitted to the Additional Secretary of the Revenue Department and the Surat Dist...Read More

Gandhinagar: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Gujarat has arrested former Gandhinagar district collector SK Langa in a disproportionate assets case. According to the ACB, the period of corrupt practices was from 1st April 2008 to 30th September 2019, during which Langa was functioning as a public servant. The ACB stated that Langa possessed excess assets worth Rs. 11.64 crore, which were beyond his income from legal sources. A complaint against Langa in this regard was filed on 19th April this year....Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has appointed Rajender Kumar, a 2004-batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, as the Secretary of the Tourism, Devasthanam Management, Civil Aviation, and Pilgrimage departments at Sachivalaya in Gandhinagar. Kumar is replacing Hareet Shukla, who has been appointed as the Chief Electoral Officer of Gujarat. Kumar, who previously served at the World Bank in Washington, DC for three years starting in 2021, will now return to his home cadre. Before this assignm...Read More