Two other IAS officers and 12 of the IPS cadre were also transferred.
Jalpaiguri District Magistrate Pritha Sarkar has now been sent as Additional Secretary to the Health and Family welfare department and Hooghly DM Mukta Arya posted in her place.
In Hooghly the new DM will be Sanjay Bansal who was with the personnel and administrative reforms department.
Housing department's principal secretary Subrata Biswas was sent to co-operation department.
Among the IPS officers, ADG (administration) P Nirajnayan was transferred as director of civil defence in place of Gangeswar Singh who was sent as ADG (IB).
ADG (telecommunication) Adhir Sharma will be the new ADG (Railways) in place of Mrityunjay Kumar Singh who was sent as ADG (provisioning).
Dr Sudhir Mishra will be the new ADG (admin) while ADG (CID) Ram Phal Pawar has been moved to the anti-corruption bureau in the same rank.
IPS officer Tapas Kumar Das will be the new DIG (CID).
Neelo Sherpa has been sent in place of Tripathi.
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