In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha Sunday ordered the transfer and reassignment of six senior IAS officers.

This comes a day ahead of Sajjan Singh Yadav, a 1995-batch AGMUT cadre IAS officer, taking charge as J&K’s new Chief Secretary after C S Atal Dulloo retired on October 31.

IAS officer Shaleen Kabra, a 1992-batch AGMUT-cadre IAS officer, has been posted as DG of Jammu and Kashmir Institute of Management, Public Administration & Rural Development from the current posting at Jal Shakti Department, according to an order issued by General Administration Department’s Commissioner-Secretary M Raju.

Kabra was Financial Commissioner (Additional Chief Secretary) Jal Shakti Department, besides holding the additional charge of the posts of Financial Commissioner Revenue, J&K; Administrative Secretary, Estates Department, and Administrative Secretary Revenue Department.

He is the third senior IAS officer shifted in J&K after Yadav’s appointment as Chief…