As many as nine IAS officers have been given new assignments in Maharashtra. Accordingly, M D Pathak has been posted as Principal Secretary (2), Urban Development Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai, while Mrs Manisha Patankar-Mhaiskar was made Principal Secretary and Chief Protocol Officer, General Administration Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai and Mrs Jayshree Bhoj is Additional Municipal Commissioner, Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation, Mumbai. Similarly, D M Muglikar has been posted as Collector, Parbhani; Dr V N Suryawanshi as Municipal Commissioner, Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation, Kalyan; Sachindra Pratap Singh as Commissioner, Animal Husbandary, Pune; C K Dange as Municipal Commissioner, Meera Bhayander Municipal Corporation, Bhayander; P Siva Sankar as Collector, Nanded and M Devender Singh has been posted as Collector, Yavatmal.