Lucknow, May 13: Within hours of taking over as
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati on Sunday carried out a
massive reshuffle in the police set-up and overhauled the
Chief Minister's secretariat creating the post of a Cabinet
Secretary and appointing two Principal Secretaries.
Mayawati also cracked the whip suspending three
officials, including two IAS officers, and ordered an inquiry
against a retired engineer on the charge of neglecting the
upkeep of a park, her dream project, named after Dalit icon B
R Ambedkar.
With the Chief Minister putting restoration of law and
order on top of her priority list, a total of 173 IPS officers,
including twelve IGs, 27 DIGs and almost all district police
chiefs, were transferred.
Among the IGs shifted were Dilm DGP office
to Gorakhpur, K L Meena from Gorakhpur to Meerut, Gurbachan
Lal, from Economic Offences Wing in Lucknow to Bareilly,
A K D Diwedi, assistant to DGP to Kanpur, S N Singh from Human
Rights Cell to Allahabad, Arvind Kumar Jain from EOW to
Lucknow and Daya Shankar Singh from Lucknow to Anti-Corruption
Wing.
The DIGs of Mirzapur, Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Faizabad and
Gorakhpur, Azamgarh And Varanasi have also been transferred as
were SSPs of Meerut, Lucknow, Mathura, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur
Etawah and Faizabad.
Mayawati appointed Shashank Shekhar Singh as the Cabinet
Secretary and Vice Chairman of the State Planning Comission
and appointed Shailesh Krishna and V K Sharma, both senior IAS
officers, as her principal secretaries.
Bureau Report
First Published: Sunday, May 13, 2007, 00:00