JAMMU: The State Government on Tuesday effected minor reshuffle in the middle rung administration and transferred nine KAS officers. Showkat Ahmed Zargar, KAS, Director, Horticulture, Planning and Marketing, J&K, has been transferred and posted as Director, Industries and Commerce, Jammu, vice Dr. Abdul Rashid, Rajinder Krishan Varma, KAS, Special Secretary to the Government, Department of Tourism and Culture, has been transferred and posted as Director, Tourism, Jammu, vice Soujanya Kumar Sharma, Dr. Abdul Rashid, KAS, Director, Industries and Commerce, Jammu, has been transferred and posted as Project Director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, relieving Shamim Ahmad Laherwal, Project Director, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan, of the additional charge of the post, Rafiq Ahmad Hakim, KAS, Director, Panchayati Raj and ex-officio Special Secretary to the Government, Department of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj, has been transferred and posted as Director, Horticulture, Planning and Marketing, J&K, vice Showkat Ahmed Zargar, Soujanya Kumar Sharma, KAS, Director, Tourism, Jammu, has been transferred and posted as Director, Information, J&K, vice Mukhtar-ul-Aziz.
Mukhtar-ul-Aziz, KAS, Director, Information, J&K, has been transferred and posted as Director, Panchayati Raj and ex-officio Special Secretary to the Government, Department of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj, vice Rafiq Ahmad Hakim, Masrat-ul-Islam, KAS, OSD with the Minister of State for Industries and Commerce, has been transferred and posted as Additional Secretary, Information Department, Mohammad Shafiq Chak, KAS, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Pulwama, has been transferred and posted as Additional Secretary, Tourism Department, Laiq Parvez, KAS, Programme Officer, ICDS Project, Ganderbal, has been transferred and posted as Additional Deputy Commissioner, Pulwama, vice Mohammad Shafiq Chak. Shahbaz Ahmad Mirza, KAS, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Ganderbal, shall hold the charge of the post of Programme Officer, ICDS Project, Ganderbal, in addition to his own duties, till further orders.