Eleven IAS officers have been given field postings as DM of various districts in UP. Satyendra Kumar has been posted as DM, Varanasi, while Avinash Kumar takes over as DM, Ghazipur and Mridul Chaudhary was made DM, Jhansi. Similarly, Gazal Bhardwaj was appointed as DM, Mahoba; Mahendra Singh Tanwar as DM, Kushinagar; Alok Kumar as DM, Sant Kabir Nagar; Avinash Singh as DM, Bareilly; Anupam Shuklaas DM, Ambedkar Nagar; Ravindra Kumar II as DM, Azamgarh, Shailesh Kumar as DM, Bhadohi and Abhishek Pandey is now DM, Hapur.