According to an official, a total of 14 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers have been transferred in Uttar Pradesh, including Noida, in a bureaucratic reshuffle under the direction of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. As part of these changes, Manish Verma, a 2011-batch IAS officer, has been appointed as the new District Magistrate of the Gautam Buddh Nagar district, replacing Suhas LY. Suhas LY, who is an acclaimed para-badminton player with 19 international medals to his name, has been appointed as the Sports Secretary in Lucknow.
During the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020, Suhas LY had replaced BN Singh as the Gautam Buddh Nagar DM. Suhas LY had won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, and he is currently ranked as the World No. 3 para-badminton player. Manish Verma, on the other hand, is an IIT graduate and ex-banker who had previously served as additional CEO of the Noida Authority in 2017 before being transferred as Kaushambi DM. Before he secured the 61st rank in the UPSC Civil Services Examinations in 2011, Verma had worked at the Deutsche Bank.