Updated on Sunday, May 13, 2007, 00:00 IST

Lucknow, May 13: Within hours of taking over as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati on Sunday carried out a massive reshuffle in the police set-up and overhauled the Chief Minister's secretariat creating the post of a Cabinet Secretary and appointing two Principal Secretaries.

Mayawati also cracked the whip suspending three officials, including two IAS officers, and ordered an inquiry against a retired engineer on the charge of neglecting the upkeep of a park, her dream project, named after Dalit icon B R Ambedkar.

With the Chief Minister putting restoration of law and order on top of her priority list, a total of 173 IPS officers, including twelve IGs, 27 DIGs and almost all district police chiefs, were transferred.

Among the IGs shifted were Dilm DGP office to Gorakhpur, K L Meena from Gorakhpur to Meerut, Gurbachan Lal, from Economic Offences Wing in Lucknow to Bareilly, A K D Diwedi, assistant to DGP to Kanpur, S N Singh from Human Rights Cell to Allahabad, Arvind Kumar Jain from EOW to Lucknow and Daya Shankar Singh from Lucknow to Anti-Corruption Wing.

The DIGs of Mirzapur, Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Faizabad and Gorakhpur, Azamgarh And Varanasi have also been transferred as were SSPs of Meerut, Lucknow, Mathura, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur Etawah and Faizabad.

Mayawati appointed Shashank Shekhar Singh as the Cabinet Secretary and Vice Chairman of the State Planning Comission and appointed Shailesh Krishna and V K Sharma, both senior IAS officers, as her principal secretaries.

Bureau Report