IAS officer whose rejig sparked row now posted as Deoria DM | India News

IAS officer Divya Mittal, whose transfer order in September 2023 had led to an outrage in Mirzapur, has been posted as district magistrate in eastern UP’s Deoria district. She had worked for months to get piped water delivered to Lahuria Dah village in Mirzapur. On August 30, 2023, after piped water reached the village, Mittal held a small “jal pujan”, where she opened a tap with running water for the first time in 70 years. This apparently didn’t go well with the local BJP leader Vipul Singh, who wrote to…