The State Government on Thursday effected a large-scale reshuffle in the Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) Cadre. The General Administration Department has issued a notification in this regard. According to the notification, labour & ESI Department Additional Secretary Biswanath Pradhan was transferred as Additional Secretary, School & Mass Education.
School & Mass Education Additional Secretary Pramod Kumar Das was shifted to Water Resources Department as Additional Secretary. Additional Director of Estates Udhab Kar was posted as Additional Secretary of the Home Department. While Estate Officer Ganeswar Jena was posted as Additional Director of Estates, Bhubaneswar, OBC Director Umakanta Swain posted as Special lAO of the MCCI Project, Cuttack and Revenue & Disaster Management Deputy Secretary Chitrasen Rout as Special lAO (TISCO), Chhatrapur.
Similarly, Culture Joint Secretary Bishnu Prasad Mishra was shifted to the Boyanika, Bhubaneswar as its Managing Director and Home Joint Secretary Sudhakar Burgi was transferred as Joint Secretary of the labour & ESI Department. WODC DO Manas Ranjan Debata was appointed as Joint Secretary, Culture and Bolgarh Tehsildar Bijaylaxmi Patsani was transferred Secretary of the Odisha State Warehousing Corporation, Bhubaneswar.
Deputy Director of Employment Anil Kumar Patnaik was posted as Deputy Secretary, Revenue & Disaster Management. While Special lAO of the MCCI Project, Cuttack Dharanidhar Nanda was posted as Khordha Sub-Collector, its incumbent Sub-Collector Satya Ranjan Sahoo was shifted to Panchayati Raj as Deputy Secretary.
Health & Family Welfare Deputy Secretary Sibo Narayan Sahoo was posted as OSD in charge of the CMRF. Women &Child Development Deputy Secretary Durgesh Nandini Sahoo was posted as Deputy Secretary, Health & Family Welfare. I&PR Deputy Secretary Birendra Korkara was posted as Sub-Collector of Nabarangpur while incumbent Sub-Collector Parikhita Sethy was posted as ITDA PA, Gajapati.
Similarly, Baleswar Sub-Collector Indramani Nayak was shifted as DRDA APD, Jajpur, Bhadrak Sub-Collector Ramesh Palata as Baleswar Sub-Collector and R&R PD, Angul Vincent Poonam Kant Ekka as Baragarh Sub-Collector. Incumbent Sub-Collector of Baragarh Bijay Kumar Khandayat Ray was posted as Deputy Secretary, I&PR.
Jajpur DRDA APD Purna Chandra Mishra was transferred as Sub-Collector, Keonjhar, Bhanjanagar Sub-Collector Ajay Kumar Jena as Bhadrak Sub-Collector, Banki Sub-Collector Basanta Kumar Rout as Bhanjanagar Sub-Collector and Keonjhar RTO Pravat Kumar Mohapatra was posted as Sub-Collector, Udala. likewise, Khordha DRDA APD Manoranjan Mallick was posted as Banki Sub-Collector, Deo Irrigation Project Special lAO Rajendra Kumar Nayak as Angul R&R PD and RCD (CD) office AFA-cum-Under Secretary Ashok Kumar Purohit was shifted as Under Secretary of the Board of Revenue, Odisha, Cuttack.