Major Reshuffle In Odisha IPS Cadre; Nayagarh SP Transferred With Promotion

Bhubaneswar: In a major reshuffle in the IPS cadre, the Odisha government on Wednesday transferred 2015 batch IPS officer and Nayagarh SP Pratyush Diwakar and posted him with a promotion as the Additional Inspector General (AIG), State Police Headquarters.

Diwakar is replaced by the Talcher SDPO Sidhartha Kataria. A notification to this effect was issued by the Home Department.

Apart from this, the government also effected transfer of the following officers to their new place of posting:

—Narasingha Bhol (IGP, NCR, Talcher) as IGP, Sambalpur
—Pandit Rajesh Uttamrao (Bhadrak SP) as DIG in-charge, Koraput
—Sheefen Ahamed (DIG, South-Western Range, Koraput) as DIG, Technical
—Sarthak Sarangi (SP, CID, CB) as DIG in-charge, Angul
—Awinash Kumar (SP, EOW) as DIG(I/C), Special Armed Police (SAP)
—Niti Shekhar (Kendrapada SP) as Additional Transport Commissioner,(Enforcement) Commerce & Transport
—B.Gangadhar (Kalahandi SP) as Sambalpur SP
—Charan Singh Meena (Jajpur SP) as Bhadrak SP
—K Shiva Subramani (Rourkela SP) as Dhenkanal SP
—Rahul PR (Jharsuguda SP) as Jajpur SP
—Madkar Sandip Sampad (Balangir SP) as Kendrapada SP
—Mukesh Kumar Bhamo (Koraput SP) as Rourkela SP
—Shravana, Vivek (Rayagada SP) as Kalahandi SP
—Kusalkar Nitin Dagudu (Nabarangpur SP) as Balangir SP
—Vivekananda Sharma (AIG State Police Headquarters) as Rayagada SP
—Varun Guntupalli (Jeypore SDPO) as Koraput SP
—Prahalad Sahai Meena (Malkangiri SDPO) as Nabarangpur SP
—Akhileswar Singh (attached to State Police Headquarters) as SOG Commandant
—Satyajit Nayak (on return from Central deputation) as SP, Computer
—Bikash Chandra Das (Additional SP, Investigative Units for Crime against Women (IUCAW), Bhadrak) as SP in-charge, Jharsuguda.