BENGALURU: The state has transferred officers of the Indian Forest Service on Friday. The officers and their new postings are: Anil Kumar Ratan - Chief Conservator of Forests and CEO, Karnataka Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, Bengaluru; Venkatesh - B-Conservator of Forests and Executive Director Jungle Lodges and Resorts; Dr Manjunath D-DCF, Chikkaballapur; D Mahesh Kumar - DCF Headquarters, Bengaluru; Deep J Contractor - DCF and General Manager, Karnataka Eco-Tourism Development Board; M N Vijaykumar - DCF Ramanagara; A Chandranna -DCF Chikkamagaluru and M S Manik - DCF and Technical Assistant, Office of the Chief Conservator of Forests, Shivamogga Circle. Following are the IAS officers who have been promoted and transferred. Dr G Kalpana - Director General,
Administrative Training Institute, Mysuru and ACS, Personnel and Training and DPAR, Rajeev Chawla-ACS Horticulture and Sericulture.
IPS transfers
Ashit Mohan Prasad - ADGP Communications, Logistics and Modernisation; K V Gagandeep, ADGP Crimes and Technical Services; N S Megharikh - ADGP, ACB; R P Sharma - MD, Karnataka Handicrafts Development Corporation; Kamal Pant - ADGP, Administration; Bhaskar Rao - ADGP, KSRP; Prashant Kumar Thakur - ADGP, BMTF; A S N Murthy - ADGP and Commissioner for Traffic and Road Safety; M A Saleem - IGP, Eastern Range; K S R Charan Reddy - IGP, Karnataka State Reserve Police; Malini Krishnamoorthy - Addl Commissioner of Police (West); Alok Kumar - IGP - North Eastern Range; J Arun Chakravarthy IGP - Internal Security, B K Singh - IGP, Training; P Harishekaran - IGP, Western Range, Mangaluru; K V Sharath Chandra - IGP, ACB; M Nanjundaswami -Additional Commissioner of Police (Administration); M Hemant Nimbalkar - Additional Commissioner of Police (East); S Ravi - Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime); Madhukar Shetty - Director, Karnataka Police Academy; Vipul Kumar - IG of Southern Range; D Roopa - DIG, Prisons; H S Revanna - DIG, Karnataka State Reserve Police; N Satheesh Kumar - DIG, Intelligence; Dr B A Mahesh - DIG, Police Recruitment; D C Rajappa - DIG and Joint Commissioner, CAR; T R Suresh - DIG, Fire Services; M N Nagaraj - DIG, CID; Sandeep Patil - SP, Intelligence; Dr Chandragupta - DCP, Central, Bengaluru; B S Lokesh Kumar - SP, KGF; Y S Ravi Kumar - SP, Internal Security; C Vamsi Krishna - SP, Haveri; B Ramesh - SP Ramanagara; Iada Martin Marbaniang - SP, Yadgir; Vartika Katiyar - SP, SIT Lokayukta, Bengaluru; Karthik Reddy - DCP Admin; Patil Vinayak Vasantrao - SP, Uttara Kannada; Isha Pant - SP Tumakuru; Ajay Hilori - DCP East, Bengaluru; Suman D Pennekar - SP, Lokayukta, Bengaluru; Anoop A Shetty - SP, Railways, Bengaluru; Divya Sara Thomas - SP, CID; C B Ryshyanth - SP, Bagalkot; Dekka Kishore Babu - DCP, CAR, Bengaluru; Nisha James - SP, Intelligence; Dr K Arun -Asst SP, Holenarasipura and M S Mohammad Sujeetha - Asst SP, Nanjangud.
Bringing order to city roads that are unfortunately turning chaotic by the day will be the biggest challenge for Praveen Sood, the new City Police Commissioner. A 1986-batch IPS officer, Sood is returning to Bangalore City Police after five years. He will take charge as Commissioner on Sunday.
Sood earlier worked as the Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) in the city from 2008 to 2011. He was instrumental in bringing in many changes, including the establishment a Traffic Management Centre.
He also worked as Deputy Commissioner Of Police Law and Order in the city and also served as City Police Commissioner in Mysuru for three years.
A graduate of IIT-Delhi, Sood did his management course from IIM-Bengaluru while in service.
Sood is known to encourage technology-driven policing, but he will also be faced with a staff crunch. He has also received the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award in 2006 for his contribution towards road safety and traffic management. In 2011, he won the National E-Governance Gold Award for ‘Most Innovative Use of Technology for Traffic Management’.