Major reshuffle in WB ahead of Mamata's swearing-in
May 26, 2016  00:18
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In a major reshuffle in West Bengal ahead of the swearing-in of Mamata Banerjee as Chief Minister for the second consecutive term, altogether 30 IAS and IPS officers in the state were transferred today.

Of the transferred 30 officials, 14 belonged to the Indian Administrative Service and rest from the Indian Police Service. Some of these officials had been removed by the Election Commission during the recent Assembly election and now reinstated to their previous positions. Prior to today's reshuffle, IPS officer Rajeev Kumar was reinstated as Kolkata Police Commissioner on May 21, two days after Banerjee returned to power with a huge mandate.

He had been removed by the EC on April 12. Among the 14 IAS officials transferred today, Antara Acharya, who was District Magistrate of East Midnapore, has been made DM of North 24-Parganas district. P B Salim was reinstated as DM South 24-Parganas district, while Rashmi Kamal has been asked to take over as DM, East Midnapore district.
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