Ranchi, Jan. 13: The personnel and administrative reforms department today notified transfers of nine IAS officers while several others were asked to hold additional charges of various departments and state-run bodies.

Industry department special secretary Dinesh Chandra Mishra will be the new divisional commissioner of Santhal Pargana and hold additional charge as North Chotanagpur divisional commissioner.

Mines commissioner Abu Bakr Siddiqui will hold additional charge of industry as its special secretary. He already holds additional charge of Jharkhand Mineral Development Corporation as its MD.

Urban administration director Virendra Bhushan will be the new panchayati raj director. Godda deputy commissioner Arvind Kumar will be the new vice-chairman of Ranchi Regional Area Development Authority.

Food and civil supplies department joint secretary Chhavi Ranjan has been made social welfare director.

Jharkhand State Housing Board MD Ashish Singhmar will hold additional charge of the urban administration as its director. Industry director K Ravikumar, will have additional charge of Jharkhand Infrastructure Development Authority as its MD.

Ranchi SDO Aditya Kumar Anand has been made Koderma deputy development commissioner.

Dumka SDO Jeeshan Kamar will be the new Chatra DDC while Chas SDO Shashi Ranjan has been made Dumka DDC. Bundu SDO Akansha Ranjan will be the new DDC of Seraikela-Kharsawan.

Dhalbhum SDO Suraj Kumar will remain in Jamshedpur as East Singhbhum DDC. Ramgarh DDC Kiran Pasi has been named Giridih DDC. Khunti DDC V. Bhaskaran, who belongs to the Indian Forest Service, will go back to forest and environment department.