In a major reshuffle of senior bureaucrats, the state government has transferred a host of IAS officers including 11 district collectors to various other posts on Sunday.
According to the government order issued on Sunday, Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar Housing Development Corporation managing director J Vijaya Rani has been posted as Chennai collector.
Coimbatore collector S Nagarajan has been transferred and posted as commissioner of Land Administration.
Tenkasi collector G S Sameeran has been posted as Coimbatore collector, Shreya Singh as Namakkal collector, while S Visakan would be Dindigul collector and S Vineeth the Tirupur collector, P Raman Saraswathi the Ariyalur collector and Amar Kushawha the new Tirupathur collector.
A R Rahul Nadh would be the new Chengalpet collector while M Aarthi, Alby John Varghese and D Mohan have been posted as collectors of Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur and Villupuram districts.
The new collectors for Karur, Virudhunagar, Tenkasi, Erode and Tiruvarur would be T Prabhushankar, J Meghanatha Reddy, J U Chandrakala, H Krishnanunni and P Gayathri Krishnan respectively.
Arun Thamburaj would be the new Nagapattinam collector replacing Praveen P Nair who has posted as director of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj.
D Mohan has been posted as Villupuram collector replacing A Annadurai who would be director of agriculture.
P Kumaravel Pandian would be the new Vellore collector in the place of A Shanmugansundaram, now posted as registrar of cooperative societies.
B Murugesh has been posted as Tiruvannamalai collector replacing Sandeep Nanduri who has been posted as director of tourism.
Nanduri will also function as managing director, Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation.
Kavitha Ramu has been posted as Pudukottai collector, S Gopala Sundara Raj as Ramanathapuram collector, Dinesh Ponraj Oliver as Thanjavur collector and K V Muralidharan as Theni collector.
The government has also posted K Laxmi Priya as director of Technical Education, R Selvaraj as commissioner of Town Panchayats, and G Latha as chairperson of Teachers’ Recruitment Board, M P Sivanarul as Inspector general of registration, P Ponniah as director of municipal administration, D Rathna as director of social welfare, R Sudhan, as state project director of Samagra Shiksha.
The order said R Brindha Devi has been posted as director of Horticulture and Plantation crops, M Vallalar as Commissioner of Agricultural Marketing and Agri Business, A Saravanavelraj as director of Town and Country Planning, T G Vinay as director of Survey and Settlement and J Jeyakanthan, as Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise V Amuthavalli, director cum mission director of Integrated Child Development Scheme and K S Kandasamy as Director of Milk Production and Dairy Development.
The government order said that the services of Anshul Mishra has been placed at the disposal of Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority for appointment as its member secretary.
Similarly, the services of Mariam Pallavi Baldev and V Dakrishnamoorthy have been placed at the disposal of Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women and Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board for appointment as managing directors respectively.
The services of S Vijayaraj Kumar, Ajay Yadav and T Anand have been placed at the disposal of Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu and State Industries Promotion Corporation for appointment as managing directors respectively.
Coimbatore, Tirupur get new collectors
