PATNA, June 1 -- In a major shuffle of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, a 2002-batch officer Saravanan M, currently divisional commissioner of Tirhut, Muzaffarpur, has been transferred to the rural development department as its secretary. The Gaya Ji district magistrate (DM)Thiyagrajan SM, 2011-batch officer, has been made as new DM of Patna. Present DM of Patna Chandra Shekhar Singh have been promoted to the secretary rank, along with other 13 officers of 2010-batch and made the divisional commissioner of Patna. The 13 officers, who have been proposed to the ranks of secretary will continue to draw the salary as per the scale of special secretary until January 1,2026. As many as 42 IAS officers have been shifted, while five others have been promoted but asked to continue at their current place of postings. The general administration department (GAD) issues three different notifications regarding promotions and transfers of IAS officers on Saturday. District magistrates of many districts have also been transferred, which is considered important in view of the coming assembly elections, due in October-November this year. Mayank Barwade (2001-batch), commissioner, Patna, has been shifted to Bihar Education Project Council as its project director. Manish Kumar (2005), Darbhanga commissioner, has been transferred to animal husbandry department as its secretary. Gopal Meena (2007), commissioner, Saran, and Dinesh Kumar Rai (2010), DM, West Champaran, have been shifted to the revenue and land reforms department as secretaries. Dinesh Kumar (2007), Bhagalpur commissioner, has been moved to the education department as a new secretary. Kanwal Tanuj (2010), special secretary, department of environment, forest and climate change, has been made new secretary of the minor irrigation department. Rahul Kumar (2011), special secretary, finance, has been made the managing director of North Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited and given additional charge of director, Bihar renewable energy development agency. He replaced Nilesh R Deore (2011), who has been sent to the cabinet coordination department as its special secretary. Deore has also been given additional charge of MD, Bihar health services and infrastructure development corporation. Inayat Khan (2012), director, cooperative societies, has been moved to the Bihar state education infrastructure development corporation as its new MD. Amit Kumar Pandey (2014), DM, Khagaria, has been made new director of ICDS. Yashpal Meena (2014), DM, Vaishali has been transferred to water resources department as additional secretary. Prashant Kumar CH (2015), DM, Gopalganj, has been shifted to panchayati raj department as its new director. Mukul Kumar Gupta (2016), DM, Siwan, has been made director, industries. Anshul Agrawal (2016), DM, Buxar, has been asked to join as director, cooperative societies, Vaibhav Chaudhary (2016), DM, Saharsa, has been moved to the health department as joint secretary. Similarly, Jamui DM Abhilash Sharma (2017) has been shifted to urban development and housing department as joint secretary. Abhishek Ranjan (2018), director, fisheries, has been given additional charge of MD, Compfed. Rajiv Raushan (2010), DM, Darbhanga, has been asked to join as commissioner, Saran, Kaushal Kumar (2010), director, integrated child development corporation (ICDS), has been made the Darbhanga commissioner. Avanish Kumar (2010), DM, Munger, has been made the new commissioner of Munger division. Raj Kumar (2010), MD, Compfed, has been shifted as new Tirhut commissioner, Muzaffarpur. Himanshu Kumar Rai (2011), special secretary, planning and development department, has been made the new commissioner of Bhagalpur division. Navin Kumar (2011), transport commissioner, has been asked to take over as the new DM of Khagaria. Kaushal Kumar (2012), DM, Supaul, has been shifted to Darbhanga in the same capacity. Kundan Kumar (2012), DM, Purnia, has been made the DM of Nalanda. Similarly, Arvind Kumar Verma (2012), DM, Madhubani, has been transferred to Munger in the same capacity. Dharmendra Kumar (2013), MD, Bihar health services and infrastructure development corporation, has been made DM, West Champaran. Navdeep Shukla (2013), director, animal husbandry department, has been shifted as Banka DM. Anand Sharma (2012), director, panchayati raj, has been shifted to Madhubani as its new DM. Navin (2013), additional secretary, parliamentary affairs department, will be the new DM of Jamui. Viyanand Singh (2013), director, finance and statistics, planning and development department, has been shifted as DM, Buxar. Sunil Kumar-1 (2013), settlement officer, Munger, has been transferred as new DM of Kaimur. Pawan Kumar Sinha (2013), additional secretary, WRD, has been made the new DM of Gopalganj, Shashank Shubhankar (2014), DM, Nalanda, has been moved to Gaya Jee as its new DM. Aditya Prakash (2014), additional secretary, health department, has been asked to join as new DM of Siwan. Sawan Kumar (2016), presently posted as DM of Kaimur, has been shifted to Supaul in the same position. Varsha Singh (2016), additional secretary, urban development department, has been made the new DM of Vaishali. Anshul Kumar (2012), DM, Banka, has been transferred to Purnia as DM. Dipesh Kumar (2017), currently deputy development commissioner, Madhubani, has been shifted to Saharsa as its DM. Besides, Chandra Shekhar Singh, Animesh Kumar Parashar, commissioner of Patna municipal corporation, Racha Patil, additional secretary, GAD, have also been promoted to the ranks of secretary....