India, Dec. 27 -- LUCKNOW With the promotion of 95 IAS officers on Thursday, Uttar Pradesh is likely to witness a reshuffle in the bureaucracy in the New Year.

Along with officers posted in various departments, those posted as divisional commissioners in Kanpur and Azamgarh divisions and district magistrates in Lucknow, Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Mathura, and Kanpur are also likely to be shifted with promotion to senior posts.

The state government granted promotion to the seven IAS officers of the 2000 batch from the post of secretary to principal secretary. The officers include Saurabh Babu, Manish Chauhan, Ranjan Kumar, Anurag Yadav and Ranveer Prasad. Two officers, Amit Gupta and Deepak Agarwal, have been given promotion to the principal s...