Bengaluru: Bengaluru (Rural Division) Regional Commissioner Harsh Gupta has been transferred from his post with immediate effect, as per a Government of Karnataka notification issued on Monday, January 13. He has now been posted as the IMA Special Officer and Competent Authority.
The notice stated, “Sri Harsh Gupta, IAS (KN:1997) Regional Commissioner, Bengaluru Rural Division is transferred with immediate effect and posted until further orders as ‘Special Officer and Competent Authority, IMA’ in the newly created post for investigation of IMA cases.”
“The post of Special Officer and Competent Authority, IMA, has been declared equivalent in the status and responsibilities to the cadre post of Secretary to Government under Rule 12 of IAS (Pay) Rules, 2016 in the Super Time Scale of IAS as included in the Schedule-II-B of the said Rules,” it added.
(with inputs from ANI)
