Mangalore: There is information that  Dakshina Kannada DC N Prakash is likely to be replaced by Harsh Gupta very soon. The government is effecting transfer of officials in the wake of assembly elections. It has been just three months since N Prakash took charge as DC.

Harsh Gupta, the likely new DC of DK is an IAS officer of  1997 batch. An engineering degree holder he has served as KMF Managing Director and also as the Deputy Commissioner of Mysore, Bellary, Shimoga, Chamrajnagar and Chikmagalur.