West Bengal CMO gets 9 new officers as Suvendu takes charge

Kolkata, May 10 (PTI) The West Bengal government on Sunday carried out a bureaucratic reshuffle, appointing two IAS officers and seven WBCS (Executive) officers in the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), according to official notifications.

P Promoth, currently serving as joint secretary in the MSME and Textiles Department, and Navneet Mittal, ADM of Paschim Medinipur, were appointed as joint secretaries in the CMO with immediate effect, said the notifications.

The seven WBCS (Executive) officers were posted as senior deputy secretaries in the CMO.

Officials currently serving in departments such as Housing, Fisheries, and Land Reforms, besides various districts, were among those given new assignments in the reshuffle.

The new administration had on Saturday

reassigned 16 officers, who were posted in the CMO when Mamata Banerjee was the chief minister.

Retired IAS officer Subrata Gupta was appointed the advisor to Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, hours after he was sworn in, while Shantanu Bala was named the CM’s private secretary. PTI SCH SOM