IAS officers reshuffled in Odisha

IAS officers have been given new responsibilities in Odisha in a major administrative reshuffle. Sanjeeb Kumar Mishra has been appointed as Principal Secretary, Finance Department and will also remain in additional charge as Chairman, IDCO, while Hemant Sharma, Additional Chief Secretary, Industries Department with additional charge as Chairman IPICOL, will also hold charge of Information and Public Relations Department. Similarly, Roopa Roshan Sahoo has been appointed as the Secretary to Governor; NBS Rajput as PS, Public Enterprise with additional charge of CMD, OSRTC; Bhaskar Jyoti Sarma as PS, Excise and will continue to hold the additional charge of CMD, OPTCL; Sachin Ramchandra Yadav as Secretary, Sports and Youth Services and will continue to hold additional charge as RDC (ND), Sambalpur and CEO, WODC; Bhupendra Singh Poonia as Secretary, Skill Development and Technical Education and will also remain in additional charge as MD, IPICOL; B Parameswaran as Secretary, ST, SC Development, Minorities and Backward Class Development Department; Mrs Guha Poonam Tapas Kumar, Secretary, Handlooms, Textiles and Handicrafts Department will hold additional charge of RDC (Central Division), Cuttack; D Prasanth Kumar Reddy as Secretary, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise and will remain in additional charge as MD, IDCO; Chanchal Rana as Commissioner, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation; Indramani Tripathy is assigned additional charge of Inspector of Factories & Boilers; Manish Agrawal as Additional SRC with additional charge of Additional Secretary, Planning & Convergence; S K Mohapatra as RDC (SD), Berhampur; Deben Kumar Pradhan as MD, OSBCL; Mrs Smruti Ranjan Pradhan as Additional Secretary, Forest, Environment & Climate Change; Siddharth Shankar Swain as Director, Special Project, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water; Chakravarti Singh Rathore as Director, Technical Education & Training; Dr Yeddula Vijay as Director, Sports; Mrs Niyati Pattanik as Director, Higher Education; Ms Parul Patawari as Director, SSEPD; Ms Aboli Sunil Naravane as Director, Industries; Mrs Madhumita Rath as Additional Secretary, School & Mass Education; Subrat Kumar Panda as Director, Soil Conservation & Watershed; Pratap Chandra Hota as Additional Secretary, Handlooms, Textiles & Handicrafts; Mrs Sagarika Hota as Additional Secretary, Finance; Ms P Anvesha Reddy as Excise Commissioner; Ms Anya Das as Deputy Secretary, Health & Family Welfare; Rehan Khatri as Commissioner, Sambalpur Municipal Corporation; Dr Rina Pradhan as CEO, DMF, Kenojhar and Ms Kirandeep Kaur Sahota will take over as Commissioner, Cuttack Municipal Corporation.