Succeeding S. Yuvaraj, Ashok Upreti becomes the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and head of the forest department of Tamil Nadu.
The transfers were brought into effect after an order released by Supriya Sahu, Principal Secretary, Environment and Forests, Government of Tamil Nadu.
From the present post of APCCF and Special Secretary, Forest, Dr Shekhar Kumar Neeraj was promoted as PCCF replacing PCCF and Chief Wildlife Warden, Syed Muzzamil Abbas was posted as Chairman, Arasu Rubber corporation.
Whereas, Mr A. Venkatesh was posted as APCCF (Planning and Budgeting), while Dr M. Jayanthi was posted as Special Secretary (Environment, Climate Change), and Mr Deepak Srivastava as APCCF and Member Secretary, T.N. State wetlands authority.
Mr Vijendra Singh Malik was posted as APCCF (Administration) and will now hold the additional charge of CCF (T.N. Afforestation project) and Project Director (Administration and Finance) at T.N. Biodiversity and Greening project.
