New Delhi, Sep 30 (TIWN) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has transferred over 200 ministerial staff, who have spent over 10 years on the same post, at its various branches across the country, an agency official said on Monday.

The move aimed at maintaining fairness and integrity comprised shifting of lower division clerks (LDCs), upper-division clerks (UDCs) and crime assistants – but within the same city, they were posted in.  These transfers are learned to be part of rotation exercise of those who have been deputed in one unit for an extended period and their conduct and work culture was “severely affecting the discipline of the agency”.  The CBI staffers were transferred on September 20 after a meeting held by the top brass of the agency headed by its Director Rishi Kumar Shukla.