The Nitish administration, for the third time in less than a month, ordered massive reshuffle in the upper echelon of the bureaucratic structure including finding a new replacement for Bihar's Director General of Police (DGP) Ashish Ranjan Sinha who is succeeded by the Home Guard Director General Shivchandra Jha.
The New DGP would resume his duties as early as tomorrow.
Others affected by the latest bureaucratic switcheroo are Additional Director General (ADG), Police Building Construction and Commissioner of the para-military Reserve Anand Shankar who now moves to the Bihar State Electricity Board as its new DG; ADG D. N. Gautam who has been transferred to the Police Headquarters.
ADG Abhyanand, also the co-founder of Super-30, an IIT preparatory institute for youths from impoverished backgrounds, will assume duties as the ADG (BMP).
Shafi Alam (ADG BMP) will assume charges of Training while Ashok Kumar Gupta (ADG Weak Sections) will be responsible for Police Building Construction Corporation.
ADG Leema Imchen, currently ADG Training, will now be the ADG of Technical Services.
Among others affected by today's restructuring of Bihar police are ADG Home Guard R. R. Verma, IG Technical Services A. C. Verma, Patna IG Rajvardhan Sharma, IG Provision Sunit Kumar, IG BMP A. K. Seth, IG Headquarters Ravindra Kumar, IG Girjanandan Sharma, Patna DIG Sunil Kumar, DIG Gupteshwar Pandey and DIG Shatrughan Prasad Singh.
Shivchandra Jha, the new DGP of Bihar, a 1969-batch IPS officer, however is scheduled to retire from service on July 31.
Source:http://www.patnadaily.com,09-04-08
