More than one dozen IAS officers have been transferred and posted to different places in Odisha. Accordingly, Rajesh Prabhakar Patil has been appointed as Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Co-operation, while Dr Bijay Upadhyaya is allowed to remain in charge of Secretary, Odia Language, Literature & Culture and Samarth Verma was made Director, Minor Minerals. Similarly, Deepankar Mohaptra has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, Hockey Promotion Council, Odisha; Ms Preksha Agrawal as Sub-Collector, Dharamgarh; Ms Pranitha Dash as Sub-collector, Baliguda; Ms Kasturi Panda as Sub-collector, Panchpir; Abhishek Dilip Dudhal as Sub-Collector, Gunupur; Ms Ashni A L as Sub-collector, Nabarangpur; C Saravanan as Sub-collector, Kuchinda; Ms Tejawini Behera as Sub-collector, Sudargarh; Shiv Malviya as Sub-collector, Anandpur and Avinash Kumar was made Sub-collector, Berhampur.