Choten D Lama IAS appointed Principal Secretary- GTA....Seven IAS officers shifted

KalimNews, Kalimpong, July 24, 2018: Ms Choten Dhendup Lama IAS (West Bengal 1999) presently Secretary, SHG & SE Department with additional charge of Secretary in P& RD Department and State Mission Director and CEO, SRLM, has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA).

Choten (43 yr) was State Project Director of Paschim Banga Sarva Shiksha Mission and Mission Director, SSA. She also served as Joint Secy Food & Supplies Deptt; CEO of SMD, WBSRLM; State Project Director of District Primary Education Prog (DPEP), School Edu Deptt; District Magistrate of East Midnapore;  Director of Mines & Minerals Deptt; Jt Secy of Commerce & Industries Deptt; Commissioner of School Education Deptt and Consultant, UNDP-Disaster Risk Management Programme.

TT, Jul 24, 2018 , Calcutta: The state government on Monday transferred seven senior IAS officers, a move considered to be the last major change in the bureaucracy before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Rajiva Sinha, a 1986 batch IAS officer who was secretary in charge of the micro, small and medium enterprises department, has been transferred to the health department. Transport secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, a 1987 batch officer, replaces Sinha.

"Sinha and Bandyopadhyay are two of the senior-most officers in Bengal now. They have been given bigger responsibilities. While Sinha will have to streamline the health department, which was at the centre of controversies over the past few weeks, Bandyopadhyay will have to organise the conclave of micro, small and medium enterprises, to be held later this year," an official at Nabanna said.

Animal resources development secretary B.P. Gopalika, a 1989 batch officer, is the new transport secretary. Verma, also a 1989 batch officer, replaces Gopalika.

"Gopalika was transport secretary when Trinamul came to power in 2011. The government apparently wanted an experienced officer to run the department, where a number of projects are being undertaken," an official said.

As part of other changes, Gorkhaland Territorial Administration secretary Subrata Biswas, a 1990 batch officer, has been transferred to the mass education and library services department. "Biswas was too senior for the GTA post," said another official.

Self-help group secretary Choten Dhendup Lama, a 1999 batch officer, replaces Biswas.

Mass education and library services department secretary Anoop Agarwal, a 1993 batch officer, replaces Lama.