The government on Friday shunted out IAS officer N V Prasad as Inspector General of Registration and Commissioner of Stamps on charges of illegally transferring 85 sub-registrars.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had recently cancelled the transfer done by Prasad
and directed the Revenue department to initiate action against him.
The chief minister’s action was actually aimed at disgruntled Congress leader V Srinivas Prasad, who was holding the Revenue portfolio till recently. The official had done the transfers on directions of Srinivas Prasad.
N V Prasad has now been posted as the managing director of Karnataka Public Land Corporation.
IAS officer Manoj Kumar Meena has taken N V Prasad’s post.
Besides, the government has transferred 24 other IAS officers.
24 other transfers
Names of the transferred officers and their new postings are as follows: Jawaid Akhtar, MD, Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (he will hold concurrent charge as Principal Secretary to Health and Family Welfare department); Naveen Raj Singh, Secretary to Backward Classes Welfare department (he will hold concurrent charge of MD Mysuru Paper Mills Limited; Subodh Yadav, Secretary to Karnataka Public Service Commission; J Ravishankar, Additional Secretary to Horticulture department; N Manjula, Director Tourism; Rathan K Kelkar, Mission Director to National Health Mission; Sowjanya, Commissioner of Public Instruction; R Vishal, Director of Municipal Administration; V Anbu Kumar, Commissioner for Backward Classes Welfare department; G Satyavathi, Deputy Commissioner of Chikkamagaluru district; B M Vijayshankar, Special Commissioner (Projects), BBMP; Juuwal Kumar Ghosh, CEO, Centre for e-Governance, DPAR; M Deepa, Director of Women and Child Development department; P Rajendra Cholan, MD, Bescom; Ramandeep Chowdhary, MD, Hubballi-Dharwad BRTS Company Ltd; S S Nakul, Deputy Commissioner, Uttara Kannada district; S B Bommanahalli, Deputy Commissioner, Dharwad; B Sindhu, Deputy Secretary to Finance department; Pankaj Kumar Pande, concurrent charge as MD, KSSIDC.