In a major reshuffle, IAS officers have been given new assignments in UP. Shiv Sahay Awasthi has been posted as Chief Executive Officer, U.P. State Rural Road Development Authority, while Anuj Singh was made Special Secretary, Chief Minister and Abhinav Gopal is now Vice Chairman, Gorakhpur Development Authority. Similarly  Ajay Jain is posted as Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Gorakhpur; Dr. Alka Verma as Special Secretary, Finance Department; Nidhi Bansal as Director (Administration), Medical and Health Services; Dr. Dinesh Chandra as Special Secretary, Public Works Department; Praveen Mishra as Special Secretary, Social Welfare; Ramesh Ranjan as Additional Land Commissioner, Board of Revenue; Divya Mittal as Special Secretary, Revenue; Chandra Shekhar as Special Secretary, Irrigation and Water Resources; Neha Jain as MD, KESco; Sameer as Special Secretary, IT and Electronics; C Indumati as Director, Women Welfare; Dr Vandana Verma as Special Secretary, Sugar Industry and Sugarcane Development; Santosh Kumar Vaishya as Municipal Commissioner, Agra; Rajendra Singh II as Member Judicial, Board of Revenue; Ankur Kaushik as Vice Chairman, Kanpur Development Authority; Avneesh Saxena as Special Secretary, Appointments and Personnel; Harikesh Chaurasia as Secretary, UP State Subordinate Services Selection Commission; Madan Singh Garbyal as Special Secretary, Ayush Department; Mrs Sanya Chhabra as Additional Commissioner, State Taxes, Kanpur First; Prafulla Kumar Sharma as Chief Development Officer (CDO), Lucknow; Mrs Neha Byadwal as CDO, Hardoi; Alok Prasad as CDO, Ghazipur; Kumar Saurabh as CDO, Ghaziabad; Dayanand Prasad as CDO, Gonda, Zuhair Bin Sagher as Special Secretary, NRI Department and Rinku Singh Rahi was posted as Joint Magistrate, Jalaun.