As many as three dozen IAS officers have been given new responsibilities in Punjab. Accordingly, Mrs Jaspreet Talwar has been appointed as ACS, Planning with additional charge of Taxation, while Krishan Kumar was made Principal secretary, Water Resources and Veerendra Kumar Meena is Principal Secretary, Social Justice, Empowerment & Minorities. Simiarly, Vikas Garg has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Housing & Urban development; Rahul Tiwari as Principal Secretary, Food Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs; Mrs Alaknanda Dayal as Principal Secretary, Employment General, Skill Development & Training; Ajit Balaji Joshi as Administrative Secretary, Rural Development & Panchayats; Mrs Shruti Singh as Resident Commissioner, Punjab Bhawan, New Delhi with additional charge of Administrative Secretary, Technical education & Industrial Training; Dilraj Singh as Admiistrative Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs with additional charge of Health & Family Welfare; Abhinav as Secretary, Tourism & Cultural Affairs; Amit Dhaka as Director, Mahatma Gandhi State Institute Public Administration with charge of Printing and Stationery and CEO, Punjab Bureau of Investment Promotion; Mrs Anindita Mitra as Secretary, Higher Education Langauges with the charge of Secretary, School Education; Mohammad Tayyab as Secretary, Horticulture with the charge of Soil & Water Conservtion; Mrs Neelima as Chief Executive, Punjab Energy Development Agency; Varinder Kumar Sharma as Secretary-cum-Director, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs; Mrs Gauri Parashar Joshi as Secretary, GAD with additional chage of CEO, State Health Agency; Mrs Babita as Commissioner, Agriculture; Mrs Surabhi Malik as Director, Industries & Commerce with additional charge of MD, Punjab Small Industries Export Corportion; Vineet Kumar as Special Secretary, Personnel with additional charge of MD, Punjab State Warehousing Corporation Limited; Mrs Baldeep Kaur as Special Secretary, Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare; Amit Talwar as MD, Punjab Health System Corporation; Mrs Hargunjit Kaur as Special Secretary, Public Works Deparment (Building & Roads); Rajesh Dhiman as Project Director, World Bank Project and Special Secretary, School Education; Moneesh Kumar as Director, Technical Education & Industrial Training; Paramvir Singh as Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Patiala; Mrs Palavi as Special Secretary, Water Supply & Sanitation; Uma Shankar Gupta as Director-cum-Special Secretary, Rural Development & Panchayats; Upkar Singh as Special Secretary, Personnel; Ajay Arora as Commissioner, Municipal Corporation; Dalwinderjit Singh as Deputy Commisioner, Gurdaspur; Harpreet Singh as Additional Deputy Secretary General, Fategarh Sahib; Mrs Kanchan as Additional Deputy Commissioner, Rural Development Bathinda; Ms Aparna M B as Additional Deputy Commissioner General, Jalandhar; Simarandeep Singh as Additional Secretary, Coordination and OSD to Chief Secretary, Punjab; Nitesh Kumar Jain as Chief Administrator, Jalandhar Development Authority and Ms Akshita Gupta was made Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Bhagwara.