In a minor bureaucratic reshuffle, the state government on Thursday transferred over half a dozen IAS officers. They are –
- K. Vijayakarthikeyan has been appointed as Joint Managing Director and Project Director (World Bank and Asian Development Bank) of the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board. He would also continue in his current post of Secretary of the State Human Rights Commission.
- Mr. Prathap has been posted as the Deputy Secretary of the Special Programme Implementation Department.
- J. Jayakanthan has been transferred and posted as Commissioner of Prohibition and Excise.
- Ms. Rathna has taken over from Mr. Jayakanthan as Joint Secretary of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj.
- B. Gayathri Krishnan, who was Joint Commissioner of Commercial Taxes and State Taxes, Coimbatore, has been appointed as Chief Administrative Officer of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority.
- Shreya P. Singh, who was the Additional Director of Agriculture, has been posted as Executive Director of the Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women.
