Eight IAS officers have been given new responsibilities in Punjab. Alok Shekhar, ACS-cum-Financial Commissioner, Cooperation; ACS, Home Affairs and Nodal Officer for implementation of Criminal Laws in state, has been given additional charge of ACS, Finance, while Dhirendra Kumar Tiwari has been posted as Additional Chief Secretary-cum-Financial Commissioner, Excise and given additional charge of ACS, Good Governance & Information Technology and ACS, Parliamentary Affairs. Similarly, Basant Garg, Administrative Secretary, Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Secretary, Health & Family Welfare and Nodal Officer, Anti Drug Campaign, was assigned additional charge of posts of Administrative Secretary, Horticulture and Administrative Secretary, Soil & Water Conservation; Anindita Mitra, Administrative Secretary, Higher Education & Languages and Administrative Secretary, School Education, will also hold charge of Managing Director, Punjab Infrastructure Development Board in addition to his current duties; Aravind Kumar M K, on repatriation from central deputation, has been posted as Director, Treasury & Accounts; Jitendra Jorwal, Additional Commissioner, Excise, Patiala; Additional Commissioner, Taxation-I, Patiala; Excise Commissioner, Punjab; Taxation Commissioner, Punjab, has been given additional charge of Special Secretary, Excise & Taxation; Ajay Arora has been transferred and posted as Special Secretary, Finance and Mrs Kanchan, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Rural Development), Bathinda, will also handle charge of Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Bathinda.