Lucknow, Sept. 19 -- In order to streamline functioning and shed the burden of officers, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday initiated the much-anticipated reshuffle in the state's top bureaucracy with the transfer of 14 IAS officers.

The transfers also indicate a move by the state government to expedite the completion of the pending projects and give momentum to big investment plans .

The additional charge of several departments have been withdrawn from chief secretary Shashi Prakash Goyal who is on medical leave since mid-August.

These include infrastructure and industrial development commissioner (IIDC), chairman of PICUP, CEO UPEIDA, CEO UPSHA, coordination department and project director, UPDASP.

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