The Gujarat Transport Department has transferred 98 Motor Vehicle Inspectors and granted in-situ promotions to 85 officials, bringing administrative changes to Regional Transport Offices and district offices across the state, according to a report by Gujarat Samachar.
The transfers involve Motor Vehicle Inspectors in Class 2 posts. Officials currently serving in offices across Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Navsari, Mehsana, Palanpur and Valsad are among those included in the orders. The department’s transfer list specifies the existing office and the new place of posting for the affected officials.
The reshuffle will change the allocation of responsibilities across several regional and district-level transport offices. The report said the orders cover offices in different cities and districts across Gujarat, although it did not provide a consolidated breakdown of the number of officials transferred to each location.
Alongside the transfers, the department has issued orders granting in-situ promotions to 85 officials. Under an in-situ promotion, an employee receives the benefit of promotion while continuing to serve at the existing place of posting. The arrangement allows the official to receive a change in rank without requiring a transfer to another office.
The two decisions will therefore have different administrative effects. The transfer order changes where 98 Motor Vehicle Inspectors will work, while the in-situ promotion order changes the position or rank of 85 officials without necessarily moving them from their current offices. The report did not state whether the 85 officials receiving promotions are separate from, or overlap with, the group of 98 transferred officials.
Motor Vehicle Inspectors form part of the field-level administrative structure responsible for transport department functions at regional and district offices. Changes in their postings can affect the distribution of officers handling departmental responsibilities, but the supplied report does not specify any immediate change to services such as vehicle inspections, registration, licensing or enforcement.
The report also said that no specific official reason for the sudden decision was provided. It described the transfers as having been made in the public interest, but did not cite a separate departmental statement explaining the administrative rationale, implementation schedule or expected effect on individual RTO operations.
The transfer and promotion orders will now be implemented across the offices named in the Gujarat Transport Department’s list. Further details about reporting dates, office-wise deployment and the operational impact of the reshuffle were not included in the report.
