Ten IAS officers have been handed over new portfolios in Punjab. Vikas Pratap, ACS- cum-Financial Commissioner, Excise, has been assigned the additional charge of Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Governance Reforms and Public Grievances, while Alok Shekhar, ACS, Jails and Justice, has been given the additional charge of ACS, Cooperation. Similarly, Ajoy Kumar Sinha, PS, Finance, was assigned the additional charge of PS, Power and New and Renewable Energy, and Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited; Kumar Rahul, Administrative Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, will also handle charge of Administrative Secretary, Medical Education and Research; Priyank Bharti, Administrative Secretary, Science, Technology and Environment, was assigned the additional charge of Administrative Secretary, Forests and Wildlife Preservation; Sheena Aggarwal, Director and Special Secretary, Social Security, Women and Child Development, gets an additional charge of Commissioner, NREGA; Sandeep Kumar has been posted as Additional Registrar (Administration), Cooperative Societies; Sagar Setia as Additional Secretary, Higher Education and Languages; Ravinder Singh as Additional Secretary, Labour, and Harjinder Singh will join as ADC (General), Gurdaspur.