Patna, June 1 -- The Bihar government on Saturday transferred 45 IAS officers, including several district magistrates (DMs), in a major shake-up in its bureaucracy ahead of the assembly elections, due later this year. Thirty-one officers of the Bihar Administrative Service (BAS) were also transferred as a part of the rejig. Along with this, the state government made new appointments in the Mahadalit Commission and the Scheduled Caste Commission. Patna DM Chandrasekhar Singh, an IAS officer of the 2010 batch, was appointed Commissioner of the Patna division. Gaya Ji DM Thyagarajan SM of the 2011 batch was made the new DM of Patna, according to an order issued by the General Administration Department. Mayank Warwade, the previous Commissioner...