DW BUREAU / Chandigarh In a major administrative reshuffle, the Punjab government on Wednesday issued transfer and posting orders of 43 IAS and 38 PCS officers with immediate effect. Several IAS officers were also given additional charge. Senior IAS officer Sarvjit Singh, who is additional chief secretary (agriculture) has been given additional charge of soil and water conservation while Vikas Pratap, principal secretary (planning), has been given additional charge of animal husbandry, dairy development and fisheries. The services of IAS officer Ravinder Kumar Kaushik have been placed at the disposal of the department of cooperation as managing director, Sugarfed while KK Yadav, who is taxation commissioner, has been given additional charge of chief executive officer of Punjab Bureau of Investment Promotion. The services of AS Thind have been placed at the disposal of the department of housing and urban development as chief administrator of Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority. Sibin C, who is director (industries), has been given the additional charge of managing director, Punjab Information and Communication Technology Corporation while Kanwal Preet Brar has been given the charge of special secretary, NRI affairs. IAS officer Bhupinder Singh has been appointed as special secretary, health and family welfare while IAS officer Neelima's services have been placed at the disposal of department of health and family welfare for posting as MD of Punjab Health System Corporation. Vinay Bublani has been given the charge of special secretary, home affairs and justice while Sanjay Popli has been appointed as commissioner for persons with disabilities. Mohinder Pal has been posted as MD, Punsup while VK Sharma has been appointed as chief executive officer of Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board. Sonali Giri has been posted as chief executive, Punjab Energy Development Agency while IAS officer Isha will be joint managing director of Punjab Municipal Infrastructure Development Company. While Karnesh Sharma has been appointed as director, tourism and cultural affairs, Ghanshyam Thori, who is Jalandhar deputy commissioner (DC), has been given additional charge of chief administrator Jalandhar development authority. Sandeep Hans, Hoshiarpur DC, has been given the charge of commissioner, municipal commissioner Hoshiarpur while Kumar Saurabh Raj, who is special secretary, excise and taxation, has also been given the charge of special secretary, home affairs. Girish Dayalan has been posted as director, governance reforms while Deepti Uppal will be director general, employment generation and training. Thirty-eight Provincial Civil Services (PCS) officers including Parminder Pal Singh, Subhash Chander, Dalwinderjit Singh, Navjor Kaur and Rubinderjit Singh Brar have also got new posting orders.  World Food Program to study Punjab wheat storage facility Chandigarh A team of the World Food Program (WFP) on Wednesday started a visit to Punjab to understand the process of procurement, testing and transportation of wheat to Afghanistan so that a similar procedure can be adopted by it. State Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Lal Chand Kataruchak said the five-member team of Sandro Banal, Filippo Zunino, Stephanie Heard, Amit Wadhera and Shruti will be visiting Amritsar to take a first-hand assessment of how long term storage of wheat is undertaken in Punjab, without deterioration in its quality. Terming the recognition by the WFP for preserving the foodgrain by the state a matter of pride, the minister said Punjab, the food bowl of the nation, has been feeding the nation and now the grain produced in Punjab is feeding people abroad also. It was also creditable that the western nations are now looking towards India to study preservation techniques for foodgrains and it speaks volumes of the progress made by the government of Punjab in this regard, he added. Senior officials of the state government and the FCI will be accompanying the team, he said, while assuring full cooperation to the team. In a separate communication by the Ministry of External Affairs to the Department of Food and Public Distribution of the government of India on April 27 it had been conveyed that "WFP is highly satisfied with the quality of 10,000 metric tons of wheat provided by India to Afghanistan as humanitarian assistance".This quantity of wheat had been moved from Punjab to Afghanistan via land route through Pakistan. The transported wheat had been stored in PUNGRAIN steel silos of 50,000 metric tons capacity near Amritsar. / DW bureau / (editor@dailyworld.in)