Naveen Patnaik-Odisha government promoted 35 IAS officers to different grades.
Sanjeev Chopra, Principal Secretary (Home), with additional of GA & PG department has been promoted to the rank of Additional Chief Secretary (Addtional CS). However, Chopra will continue with the same departments (Home, GA & PG) in the rank of Additional CS.
Three IAS officers of 1996-batch Saswata Mishra, VV Yadav and Vishal Dev have been promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary.
Similarly, 2005-batch IAS officers – Vineel Krishna, Ratnakar Rout, Dasarathi Satpathy, Prafulla Chandra Pradhan, Anjan Kumar Manik, Benudhar Behera, Suresh Chandra Dalai, Debendra Jena, have been promoted to the Super Time Scale grade.
2008-batch IAS officers – Bhupendra Singh Poonia, Yamini Sarangi, M Muthukumar, B Parameswaran, Guha Poonam Tapas Kumar, Maguni Charan Patra, Brundaban Behera, Dhananjay Hembrem, Gangadhar Patra, Pabitra Mandal, Sunil Kumar Nayak and Batakrishna Dehury have been promoted to the Selection Grade.
Seven IAS officers of 2012-batch have been promomted to the Junior Administrative Grade. They are – Anupam Saha, Nikhil Pavan Kalyan, Manish Agarwal, Vineet Bhardwaj, Poma Tudu, Smruti Ranjan Pradhan and Siddhartha Das.
Similarly four 2017-batch IAS officers Anvesha Reddy, Patil Ashish Ishwar, Divakara TS and Hema Kanta Say have been promoted to Senior Time Scale grade, the GA Department notificaion informed.
