GURUGRAM: Haryana changed the leadership of two major Gurugram civic bodies on Tuesday, November 10, appointing Pankaj as Municipal Corporation of Gurugram commissioner and Dusmanta Kumar Behera as chief executive officer of the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority. The posting order takes effect immediately and also changes other administrative assignments connected with the district.

Pankaj will hold the additional responsibility of district municipal commissioner, Gurugram. The municipal corporation lists its head office at Plot C-1, Info City, Sector 34. For residents dealing with the corporation, the order identifies a new head of the organisation, while the same document separately names the incoming chief and additional chief of the metropolitan authority.

Who moves into the Gurugram posts

The November 10 personnel order, signed by Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi, lists 14 IAS and Haryana Civil Service officers. Pankaj, a Haryana cadre IAS officer of the 2020 batch, moves from Panipat, where he held both the municipal commissioner and district municipal commissioner assignments. He replaces Pradeep Dahiya in both Gurugram posts.

Dahiya, a 2013 batch IAS officer, has been assigned two positions elsewhere in the state administration: managing director of the Haryana State Federation of Cooperative Sugar Mills and director of the State Audit Department. The order places both assignments against the posts previously held by Shakti Singh.

Behera, a 2007 batch IAS officer, moves from the Human Resources and General Administration departments, where he was commissioner and secretary. His new assignment covers both GMDA and the Faridabad Metropolitan Development Authority. Phool Chand Meena, the outgoing chief of both authorities and a 2004 batch IAS officer, takes over Behera's two commissioner and secretary assignments.

The change therefore places the two metropolitan authorities under the same incoming officer, as the outgoing arrangement did. It is a transfer of the listed responsibilities between officers. The order contains the names, existing designations, new postings and the officers being replaced, allowing residents to distinguish the GMDA appointment from the separate municipal corporation appointment.

  • MCG commissioner and district municipal commissioner: Pankaj.
  • GMDA and FMDA chief executive officer: Dusmanta Kumar Behera.
  • GMDA additional chief executive officer: Mohd. Imran Raza.
  • District registrar for firms and societies: Jitender Kumar-II, as an additional charge.

Additional changes affecting the district

Mohd. Imran Raza, a 2015 batch IAS officer, becomes GMDA's additional chief executive officer. He was director of Human Resources and special secretary in the Human Resources and General Administration departments. The order relieves Vishwajeet Chaudhary, a 2021 batch IAS officer, of the additional GMDA charge.

MCG additional commissioner Ankita Choudhary, a 2019 batch IAS officer, has been posted as Panipat's district municipal commissioner and municipal corporation commissioner. She moves into the assignments held by Pankaj. The order thus changes Gurugram's municipal leadership at more than one level, with both its commissioner and an additional commissioner receiving new postings.

For the district's firms and societies administration, Jitender Kumar-II receives the district registrar assignment in addition to his existing duties. The 2014 batch HCS officer is listed as zonal administrator of the Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board in Gurugram. He replaces Arpit Gahlawat, a 2023 batch HCS officer, who moves to the Finance Department as deputy secretary.

Another related urban administration posting concerns Manoj Khatri, a 2011 batch HCS officer. He moves from additional secretary in the Finance Department to secretary of the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran in Panchkula, with an additional assignment as additional director for administration in Town and Country Planning.

What the order provides for next

Shakti Singh, a 2012 batch IAS officer, becomes director of Sports and special secretary in that department, relieving Parth Gupta of that charge. Singh also takes over the Human Resources director and special secretary assignments previously held by Raza, along with the General Administration special secretary assignment.

The remaining HCS postings include Virat as deputy secretary of the Haryana Public Service Commission, while retaining the listed Printing and Stationery responsibilities. Parshant receives the irrigation general manager assignment alongside existing duties. Anil Kumar Yadav moves to district municipal commissioner, Mahendragarh, while Ranbir Singh moves to joint commissioner of the municipal corporation at NIT, Faridabad.

The order directs the drawing and disbursing officers concerned to issue the last pay certificate and the specified leave salary and pension contribution records within seven days of an officer relinquishing charge. This is an administrative handover requirement. The document states immediate effect but does not give a separate public joining ceremony or appointment schedule.

The Chief Secretary Office's description of its responsibilities identifies personnel administration and the establishment of IAS and HCS officers among its functions. Residents can consult the signed order for the postings and the municipal corporation website for its office information.

For background on the work facing these institutions, earlier Gurugram coverage includes GMDA's cleaning schedules, three junction infrastructure projects and municipal sanitation enforcement.