Mangalore: Post-election, N Prakash back as deputy commissioner
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
With DHNS Inputs
Mangalore, May 12: Deputy commissioner (DC) of Dakshina Kannada Harsh Gupta has been transferred and N Prakash, who held the post earlier, will be re-transferred to the same post.
The transfers of 21 IAS officers had taken place on the directions of the election commission last month. Now that the Assembly election process is over, the officers have been re-transferred.
Accordingly, Harsh Gupta will be back as labour commissioner, Bangalore, a post which he held before being transferred to Mangalore, and N Prakash will take over from him.
A majority of the officers have got back the posts they held earlier.
As many as 12 IAS officers, all KAS cadre, who were working as deputy commissioners were transferred on the Election Commission’s direction and were replaced by direct IAS recruits. The KAS promotees had approached the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) questioning their transfer. After the CAT stayed the transfers, the EC had petitioned the High Court, which had ruled that once the election process was completed, the officers should to be posted back.
Accordingly, the government on Saturday transferred these officers to the posts they had held earlier. However, Mysore Deputy Commissioner C Shika will continue in the post till the elections are held to the Periyapatna Assembly constituency.
The officers who have been re-transferred are - Harsh Gupta, Commissioner, Labour department; N Prakash, DC, Dakshina Kannada; Naveenraj Singh, Commissioner, Social Welfare department; Manish Moudgil, Director, MGNREGA; Hemalatha, Director, Planning, Grameen Jivanadhar Uttejan Society, Bangalore; V Ponnuraj, Commissioner, Land Records department; Ajai Nagbhushan, CEO, Mysore ZP; Anbukumar, MD, Mysore Minerals; Jagadish, Director, Horticulture department; Ujjwal Kumar Ghosh, CEO, Bidar ZP; Rajendra Cholan, MD, Hescom; Shashikanth Senthil, CEO, Shimoga ZP, V Shankar, CEO, Belgaum ZP; B N Krishnaiah, DC, Mandya; N Jayaram, DC, Belgaum; J C Prakash, DC, Bangalore Urban; F M Jamadar, DC, Yadgir; N S Prasanna Kumar, DC, Gulbarga, V P Ikkeri, DC, Chitradurga, and Sriram Reddy, DC, Ramnagar.