Chandigarh, June 8 -- Girish Dayalan, managing director, MARKFED, and registrar of cooperative societies, has been posted as special secretary, prisons department, as the Punjab government ordered reshuffling of six IAS officers.

Dayalan's transfer comes weeks after the IAS officer in a letter dated April 24, (accessed by HT) had told the department of social security, women and child development that MARKFED would not proceed with the ongoing tenders under the supplementary nutrition programme due to quality issues.Dayalan was given the additional charge of MD, MARKFED, in February replacing Preeti Yadav.

For the past several years, MARKFED has been supplying Fun Pops, khichdi premix, and sweet and salty daliya premixes to anganwadis o...