Gurugram news: IAS officers transferred in Haryana reshuffle after monsoon mayhem, amid worsening AQI; who are they?
Haryana has reshuffled 14 IAS and HCS officers, changing the leadership of Gurugram’s development and municipal bodies. Dusmanta Kumar Behera will head GMDA and FMDA, while Pankaj becomes MCG commissioner. The changes follow severe monsoon flooding in Gurugram.
Haryana has undergone an administrative reshuffle involving 14 IAS and HCS officers following a series of monsoon-related disruptions and deteriorating air quality in the region. The changes in leadership include the transfer of Phool Chand Meena, the former CEO of the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) and Faridabad Metropolitan Development Authority (FMDA), to the Human Resources and General Administration departments.
Dusmanta Kumar Behera, a 2007-batch IAS officer, has taken over as CEO of both GMDA and FMDA. Additionally, Pankaj, a 2020-batch IAS officer from Panipat, has become the new Municipal Commissioner of Gurugram and District Municipal Commissioner of Gurugram, replacing Pradeep Dahiya, who has been transferred to the Haryana State Federation of Cooperative Sugar Mills and the State Audit Department.
The reshuffle comes in the wake of severe monsoon waterlogging in August, which disrupted traffic and left school buses stranded. The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has also invoked Stage III of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) due to worsening air quality, which is currently in the 'very poor' category, with an AQI of 359.
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