The Gujarat govt has effected some changes to the deployment of IAS officers.  R C Meena, secretary of the tribal development department, has been appointed secretary in charge of the youth, sports and cultural affairs department. Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Ltd (UGVCL) managing director P Swaroop will take his place as secretary for tribal development. The Government has appointed senior IFS officer Mahesh Singh to UGVCL.

Collectors of Dangs, Tapi-Vyara, Narmada, Mahisagar and Devbhoomi Dwarka have been transferred as also the municipal commissioners of Jamnagar and Junagadh and the DDOs of Surat and Surendranagar.

Further, on the retirement of Raj Gopal, additional chief secretary (ACS) of the energy and petrochemicals department, the state government has given the additional charge of this post to Pankaj Joshi, managing director of Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd (GUVNL), who is a principal secretary-rank officer

Two months after appointing IAS officer IK Patel as the Chief Administrator of Statue of Unity (SoU), the state government on Thursday transferred him and appointed him as the Collector of Narmada district.

In an order later the same day, Patel, who took charge of this newly created post in mid-November and was also the CEO & Rehabilitation Commissioner of Sardar Sarovar Punarvasvat Agency, Vadodara, has been asked to hold the additional charge of the two posts — Chief Administrator of Statue of Unity, CEO and Rehabilitation Commissioner of Sardar Sarovar Punarvasvat Agency, Vadodara — till further orders. Patel was transferred along with 18 other IAS officers.

RS Ninama, who held the Narmada Collector’s post, has been transferred to the neighboring Tapi district as Collector. The collector of Tapi, NK Damor has been appointed as Collector of Dangs, while BK Kumar who held this post has been appointed as additional secretary, Agriculture Department, Gandhinagar.