IAS-Reshuffle: Odisha Government Transfers 41 Bureaucrats Ahead Of Polls (image: twitter.com/Naveen_Odisha

In a major reshuffle in bureaucracy ahead of Lok Sabha polls and Assembly elections, Naveen Patnaik-helmed Odisha government has transferred 41 IAS officers, a notification stated.

As per the notification released by the General Administration & Pension and Grievances Department, the transferred include 17 district collectors.

Citing government sources, Times of India said that some of the bureaucrats have been relocated in accordance with the transfer guidelines published by the Election Commission of India (ECI) for poll-bound Odisha.

SJTA chief administrator Ranjan Kumar Das has been appointed as the new Revenue Divisional Commissioner (Central Division); besides, he will also undertake the additional charge of Revenue Divisional Commissioner (Southern Division).

Similarly, Revenue Divisional Commissioner (Southern Division) Temjenwapang Ao was appointed the Commissioner-cum-Secretary of the Public Enterprises Department.

As the ten IAS officers of the 2018 and 2019 batches were appointed as district collectors for the first time, the 2020 and 2021 batches were made ADMs and sub-collectors.

Khurda Collector K Sudarshan Chakravarthy was appointed the Director of Minor Minerals. Bolangir”s District Collector Chanchal Rana was made the new Collector of Khurda.

Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) Commissioner Nikhil Pavan Kalyan was appointed the Director of Rural Development where Angul Collector Siddharth Shankar Swain will take Pavan Kalyan”s position as CMC Commissioner.

Puri”s Collector Samarth Verma was made the Additional Chief Administrator of the SJTA and State Election Commission Secretary Bijay Kumar Das will replace Samarth Verm as Puri”s Collector.

Koraput Collector Abadaal Akthar was moved to Angul, where CDO-cum-EO of Ganjam Zilla Parishad Keerthi Vasan was appointed as the Koraput Collector, the notification added.

(With inputs from PTI)