In a big step, UP removes 9 DMs, 26 IAS officers

Lucknow, July 13: On Friday night, the Uttar Pradesh government transferred 26 IAS officers, including DM of nine districts. Amethi's District Magistrate Ram Manohar Mishra has also been removed. At his place, Prashant Sharma has been made Amethi's new DM. Apart from this, the government has also removed IAS officer Santosh Kumar Rai, who came under CBI probe in the mining scam.

 

After the big step, the new officers have been deployed along with Amethi, the existing District Magistrates of Basti, Shahjahanpur, Baghpat, Mahoba, Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar, Eta and Bijnaur have been removed.

Recently, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed removal of a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) for poor performance on Sunday and sought an explanation from officials of other departments for not performing up to the mark.

A statement issued by the state government here said Adityanath reviewed the progress of the Gorakhpur division and directed that SDM Sadar Maharajganj Satyam Mishra be transferred due to poor performance.

The chief minister also directed the transfer of two executive engineers of the electricity department executive engineer (hydel) Padrauna, Hansraj Kaushal and executive engineer (hydel) Tamkuhiraj, AH Khan.

He also expressed his displeasure on the performance of the chief medical officers (CMOs) of Deoria (Dhirendra Kumar), Kushinagar (Hari Charan Singh) and Maharajganj (Kshama Shankar Pandey) and sought an explanation from them in this regard.