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The new Kerala govt under Chief Minister V.D. Satheeshan effected a major administrative reshuffle on Monday transferring 47 IAS officers. Those affected include Biswanath Sinha (IAS-1992) Additional Chief Secretary, Home and Vigilance who has been relieved of the additional charge of ACS, Coastal Shipping and Inland Navigation. Sinha has been entrusted with the additional charges of Coir development department and housing department.
K.R. Jyothilal (IAS-1993) ACS, Finance Department has been entrusted with the additional charge of Planning and Economic Affairs and Member Secretary, Kerala Planning Board. He will continue to hold the additional charge of the taxes department, rebuild Kerala initiative and public procurement advisory department.
Puneet Kumar (IAS-1993), Resident Commissioner, Kerala House, Delhi has been relieved of all additional charges.
Dr. Rajan N. Khobragade (IAS 1993) ACS, Health and Family Welfare has been relieved of the additional charge of ACS Cultural Affairs (Archaeology, Achieves & Museums) department, Personnel and Administrative Reforms department. He will continue to hold the additional charge of ACS, AYUSH department.
Minhaj Alam (IAS-1966) CMD, Kerala State Electricity Board Ltd to ACS, Sports and Youth Affairs, Soos, Museums, Archaeology and Archives departments. He has been relieved of the charge of Wildlife, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development departments.
Dr. Raju Narayanaswamy (IAS 1997) Principal Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs department to PS, Sainik Welfare department.
Dr Sharmila Mary Joseph (IAS-1997) Principal Secretary, Women and Child Development department to PS, Health and Family Welfare. She will also hold the additional charge of the Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs department.
Mrs. Tinku Biswal (IAS-1997) Principal Secretary, Local Self Govt and Director General Institute of Management has been relieved of the charge of Agriculture department.
B. Ashok (IAS-1998) on reinstatement into service has been posted as Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department.
Dr. Ratan U. Kelkar (IAS-2003) Secretary to Chief Minister has been entrusted with the additional charge of Coastal Shipping and Inland Navigation, Information and Public Relations and department for Elderly Welfare.
Biju K. (IAS 2006) Secretary, PWD to Secretary, Forests and Wildlife department. He has been entrusted with the additional charge of Skill development and Cashew, GAD and Tourism departments.
N. Prashanth (IAS-2007) on reinstatement into service has been posted as Special Secretary, Sports Department. He will hold the additional charge of Special Secretary, Youth Affairs, Zoos, Museum, Archaeology and Archives departments.
M.G. Rajamanickam (IAS-2008) Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management to Chairman and MD Kerala State Electricity Board.
Mrs. T.V. Anupama (IAS-2010) Secretary, Local Self Govt to Secretary, Transport Department. She will also hold the additional charge of Airports, Metro Rail, Personnel and Administrative Reforms Departments among others.
Jeevan Babu K. (IAS-2011) Commissioner, Land Revenue to Special Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management department.
Suhas S. (IAS-2012) MD, Road and Bridges Development Corporation and Special Officer for Wayanad Township to Special Secretary, Water Resources.
Seeram Sambasiva Rao (IAS-2012), Excise Commissioner has been relieved of his additional charge of Special Secretary, Environment Department and Director, Survey and Land Records department.
Dr. Adeela Abdulla (IAS-2012), Special Secretary, Social Justice Department to PWD.
Shanvas S. (IAS-2012) Special Secretary, Labour and Skills Department to Special Secretary Local Self Govt. He will continue to hold the additional charge of MD, Roads and Bridges Development Corporation and Special Officer Capital Region Development Project and Chairperson, Social Audit Society.
Abdul Nasar B. (IAS 2012) Special Secretary, Fisheries department has been entrusted with the additional charge of Harbour Engineering and Social Justice departments.
Dr. D. Sajith Babu (IAS-2012) Registrar, Co-operative Societies to Special Secretary, General Education department and will hold the additional charge of Minority Welfare department. He has been relieved of the charge of State Mission Director, National AYUSH Mission.
Gopalkrishnan K. (IAS02013) MD, Vyttila Mobility Hub Society to Director, Environment and Climate Change. He has been entrusted with the additional charge ofDirector, ANERT and MD, Kerala State Co-operative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank.
T.V. Subhash (IAS-2013) Special Secretary, Information and Public Relations to Special Secretary, Agriculture department.
Mrs. Anjana M. (IAS-2013) Director, Tourism has been entrusted with the additional charge of NORKA and S&T departments.
Mrs. Sheeba George (IAS-2013) Special Secretary, Health and Family Welfare to Women and Child Welfare. She will hold the additional charge of Labours, Dairy development and Animal Husbandry departments.
H. Dineshan (IAS-2014), Project Director, Kerala Solid Waste Management Project to Principal Director, Local Self Govt. She will hold the additional charge of Project Director, Kerala Solid Waste Management Project and State Mission Director, National AYUSH Mission. He has been relieved of the charge of MD, Vizhinjam International Seaport Limited and Director, Cultural Affairs departments.
Mrs. Afsana Perween (IAS 2014) Commissioner, Food Safety to Director, Collegiate Education with additional charge of Controller of Entrance Examinations.
Mrs. Geromic George (IAS-2015) Principal Director, Local Self Govt department to Additional Secretary and OSD, Finance (Expenditure). She has been entrusted with the additional charge of MD, Vizhinjam International Seaport Limited and CEO, Kerala Maritime Board.
Mrs. Vigneshwari V. (IAS-2015) Director, Women and Child Development has been entrusted with the additional charge of ED, Kudumbashree.
Dr. Renu Raj (IAS-2015), on return from her study leave has been posted as Additional Secretary, Health and Family Welfare with the additional charge of Director, Kerala, Medical Services Corporation and ED State Health Systems Resource Centre.
Shibu A. (IAS-2015) Additional Secretary, PWD to Revenue department.
Devvidas N. (IAS-2015) Director, Kerala Institute of Local Administration has been entrusted with the additional charge of Director, Minority Welfare.
Vinod V.R. (IAS-2015) Joint Commissioner, Land Revenue to Additional Secretary, PWD.
Asif K. Yusuf (IAS-2016) DG, Education to Director NORKA with the additional charge of CEO, NORKA Roots.
Snehil Kumar Singh (IAS-2016) Director, Collegiate Education to Director, General Education. He has been entrusted with the additional charge of CEO, Education Rejuvenation Mission.
Prem Krishnan S. (IAS-2017) Joint Secretary and OSD, Health and Family Welfare to Registrar, Co-operative Societies.
Mrs. Sreedhanya Suresh (IAS-2019) Additional Director (General), Tourism to Commissioner, Food Safety. She has been entrusted with the additional charge of tourism and Director, Samoohika Sannadha Sena and Kerala Youth Leadership Academy.
Rahul Krishna Sharma (IAS-2020) Joint Secretary, Health and Family Welfare to Special Commissioner, GST.
Mohammad Shafiq (IAS-2020) Deputy Secretary and Director, Director Programme Implementation, Evaluation and Monitoring department to Additional Commissioner, GST.
Mrs. Shafna Nazrudeen (IAS 2020) Labour Commissioner has been entrusted the additional charge of Joint Commissioner, Land Revenue.
Mrs. Anu S. Nair (IAS-2020) Deputy Secretary, Revenue Department to State Mission Director, NHM.
Dr. Arun J.O. (IAS-2020) Chief Operating Officer, Township Project, Wayanad to Director, Survey and Land Records department.
Sabin Sameed (IAS-2020) Secretary, Land Board to Director, Information and Public Relations department and Director, Institute of Land and Disaster Management, Thiruvananthapuram.
Misal Sagar Bharat (IAS-2021), Deputy Secretary, and OSD, SC, ST and Backward Classes Development department to Project Director, Kerala State Transport Project. He has been entrusted with the charge of MD, Vyttila Mobility Hub Society and MD State Construction Corporation Ltd.
Harshil R. Meena (IAS-2021) CEO, ANERT to MD, Kerala Tourism Board. He will also hold the charge of CEO Smart City, Thiruvananthapuram and
Ranjith D. (IAS 2021), Mission Director, MGNREGS has been entrusted with the additional charge of Director, Backward Classes Development Department.
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