Controversial bureaucrat Rajeev Rautela, who was in the eye of the storm when as the Gorakhpur district magistrate (DM) he reportedly shunted the media out of the counting centre of the Lok Sabha bypoll, has been transferred to Uttarakhand in a change of cadre. He was on March 17 transferred from Gorakhpur and was made the new divisional commissioner of Devipatan division. Also read UP govt transfers 37 IAS officers including Gorakhpur DMRautela, a Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officer of the 1982 batch, was promoted to the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) in 2002. According to an order of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) of the Union government, his cadre has been changed under Section 73(2) of the UP Reorganisation Act, 2000. Rautela is known to be a close associate of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and was hand-picked by him as Gorakhpur DM.

Source: dna March 19, 2018 18:21 UTC