5 KAS officers adjusted; transfers, postings effected

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 23: The State Government has ordered adjustment of 5 Junior Scale KAS officers, who were deployed in the Personal Sections of the former Ministers and Ministers of State.
Atul Dutt Sharma has been sent to Revenue Department while Ajay Bharti and Prince Norul Hamid have been adjusted in the Finance Department. Piyush Dhotra and Sajad Bashir Somberia have been shifted to Social Welfare Department.
Besides, the Government has also ordered transfers and postings of five Under Secretaries with immediate effect.
Mohammad Usman Khan and Shuaib Mohammad Naikoo, awaiting orders of posting in the Social Welfare Department, have been posted as Under Secretary Forest department and Industries & Commerce department, respectively.
Aadil Fareed, awaiting orders of posting in the Animal and Sheep Husbandry Department, has been posted as Under Secretary PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control Department.
Ishtaq Ahmad Bhat has been transferred from the Forest Department and posted as Under Secretary JKPSC while Arun Kumar Bajaj, awaiting orders of posting in the Forest Department, has been posted as Under Secretary Hospitality and Protocol Department.
Meanwhile, according to a separate order, Rashida Akhter, under orders of transfer as Project Manager, Integrated Watershed Management Programme, Bandipore/ Chief Executive Officer, Urban Development Agency Kashmir, has been now posted as CEO Urban Development Agency Kashmir while Bashir Ahmad Sofi, under orders of repatriation to the Housing and Urban Development department, has been posted as Deputy Director, Urban Local Bodies, Kashmir against an available vacancy.