Jammu, Jan 23 (PTI) Hemant Kumar Sharma, a 2002-batch IASofficer, has been appointed as the Divisional Commissioner ofJammu, an official order said today.
The divisional commissioner's post fell vacant after theincumbent officer Mandeep Kumar Bhandari proceeded on centraldeputation earlier this month.
"Commissioner Secretary Transport department Hemant KumarSharma, who was also holding additional charge of the post ofadministrative secretary, science and technology department,is transferred and posted as Divisional Commissioner, Jammu,against an available vacancy," the government order said.
The order also noted that IAS officer M Raju, secretaryto the government, Public Health Engineering, Irrigation andFlood Control department, would now hold the additional chargeof the posts of administrative secretary, transport andscience and technology department, till further orders.
Bhandari was appointed as private secretary to the unionminister for human resource development in the highereducation department at the level of director for a period offive years.
The state government has also transferred programmeofficer, Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) SuriyaJabeen (KAS) and posted her as the additional districtdevelopment commissioner Jammu against an available vacancy.
PTI TAS AB MG.
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