Rajasthan Reshuffles 28 IAS Officers, Hands Out CEO and Commissioner Charges

The Rajasthan government has reassigned 28 IAS officers in a wide-ranging reshuffle, with Nitya K., Shilpa Singh and Utsah Chaudhary moving into Joint Secretary roles in the Energy, Planning and Disaster Management departments respectively under an order issued this week.

The reshuffle touches Rajasthan's urban development machinery in particular, with a large share of the officers named taking charge of development authorities and municipal corporations across the state, bodies responsible for land allotment, master planning and civic infrastructure delivery in fast-growing towns. Development authority chiefs in Rajasthan typically answer directly to the Urban Development and Housing department in Jaipur, and their postings are watched closely by local builders and residents alike because they control the pace at which residential and commercial plots are released.

Among the more prominent moves, Girdhar has been named CEO of the Bhiwadi Integrated Development Authority, which oversees planning for one of the National Capital Region's fastest-growing industrial corridors, a stretch of Alwar district that has drawn manufacturing investment on the strength of its proximity to Delhi and Gurugram. Dhaygude Snehal Nana takes over as Commissioner of the Bikaner Development Authority, while Gaurav Budhania becomes Commissioner of the Ajmer Municipal Corporation and Rashmi Rani is posted as Commissioner of the Ajmer Development Authority, giving Ajmer two new civic heads in the same order.

The order also reassigns officers heading district-level development bodies across the state's western and southern belts. Yash Chaudhary, Yatharth Shekhar and Preetam Kumar have been named CEOs of the Marudhara Development Authorities in Alwar, Jaisalmer and Udaipur respectively, filling out leadership at three of the state's district-level development bodies in a single stroke, while Salunkhe Gaurav Ravindra takes charge as Secretary of the Urban Development Trust in Bhilwara.

The scale of the reshuffle, touching more than two dozen officers across departments as varied as energy, disaster management, medical education and urban development, points to a broader mid-year recalibration of Rajasthan's bureaucratic bench rather than a response to any single vacancy. Similar exercises have followed the state's budget cycle in recent years, as departments finalise staffing for scheme implementation through the remainder of the financial year, and this round comes as several development authorities enter the final quarter of ongoing infrastructure projects.

Development authorities in Rajasthan have faced scrutiny over delayed land allotments and pending infrastructure projects in recent years, with residents' associations in Bhiwadi and Ajmer both flagging stalled road and drainage works in representations to the state government earlier this year. The new appointees inherit charge of bodies where clearing backlogs of pending files is typically the first task assigned by the state government to an incoming CEO or Commissioner.

Other officers named in the same order include Pratibha Verma as Director, Medical IEC, and Avhad Nivrutti Somnath as Additional CEO of RIICO in Jaipur, the state's industrial infrastructure body. The postings take effect immediately, according to the order issued by the Department of Personnel in Jaipur.