BENGALURU: Ahead of the monsoon season and amid uncertainty over civic polls, the government on Thursday appointed senior IAS officer Tushar Giri Nath the new chief commissioner of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, replacing Gaurav Gupta.
This was part of the bureaucratic reshuffle involving 17 IAS officers on Thursday. Tushar Giri Nath, who was principal secretary, revenue department replaces Gupta, who has been transferred as additional chief secretary, infrastructure development department. The change of guard has come at a time when BBMP received a rap on its knuckles from the high court over poor management of the city's infrastructure, including missing out on deadlines to fill potholes on arterial roads, waterlogging and underpass flooding.
