Rajive Kumar, an IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre ( 1981 batch), has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of the State. He has replaced Rahul Bhatnagar who has now been appointed as the new Chairman of Greater Noida and Investment Commissioner, UP.

Kumar was earlier posted as Secretary in the Ministry of Shipping.

The State government has also transferred 40 IAS officers and six Provincial Civil Services (PCS) officers.

The complete list is as follows:

Alok Kumar

Vishal Chauhan

Kamran Rizvi

Deepak Trivedi

Sanjay R Bhoosreddy

P K Mohanty

Rama Raman

Rajive Sharma

Akhilesh Kumar Mishra

Avinash Krishna Singh

Ram Manohar Mishra

Anand Kumar Singh

Rajendra Kumar Singh

Atal Kumar Rai

Kanak Tripathy

Seetaram Yadav

Bal Krishan Tripathy

Nitin Bansal

Saroj Kumar

Mahendra Bahadur Singh

Pinki Jovel

Raghvendra Vikram Singh

Udayveer Singh Yadav

Anil Kumar

Himanshu Kumar

Raj Pratap Singh

Dr Gurdeep Singh

Navneet Kumar Sehgal

Sanjeev Saran;

Dimple Verma

Anita Singh

Amit Kumar Ghosh

Satyendra Singh

Vijay Kumar Yadav

Bhupedra S Chaudhary

Anand Kumar Singh

Vaibhav Srivastava

Harshita Mathur

Sudheer Kumar Dixit

Anita Bhatnagar Jain.

The PCS officers transferred are:

Yogendra Kumar

Arvind Kumar Pandey

Vijay Kumar Singh

Vishal Bhardwaj

Avinash Singh

Rajesh Kumar Pandey.