Bhubaneswar: In a significant administrative reshuffle, the Odisha government has reassigned several Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, according to a notification issued by the General Administration & Public Grievance (GA&PG) Department on Thursday.
Aradhana Das, previously Special Secretary in the Home Department, has been appointed Joint Secretary in the same department. In addition, 16 other IAS officers have been posted as Joint Secretaries in various departments, including Forest, Revenue, Water Resources, Energy, Rural Development, and Education.
The officers assigned as Joint Secretaries include:
- Dharam Hansdah – Forest, Environment & Climate Change
- Rina Mohapatra – Fisheries & Animal Resources
- Lily Kumari Kullu – Revenue & Disaster Management
- Narahari Sethy – Water Resources
- Madhumita Rath – Handloom, Textiles & Handicrafts (with continued additional charge as Managing Director, Utkalika)
- Debasis Singh – Housing & Urban Development
- Pratap Chandra Hota – Parliamentary Affairs
- Nibedita Mishra – Energy
- Rega Geetarani Patnaik – Rural Development
- Archana Das Pattanaik – Excise
- Anjana Panda – Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare
- Nivedita Prusty – Home Department
- Swayam Prava Mohanty – Women & Child Development
- Sudam Charan Mandal – Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare
- Girish Chandra Singh – School & Mass Education
Additionally, key officials currently holding director-level and equivalent roles have been granted Joint Secretary status, affirming their seniority and responsibilities. These include:
- Niyati Pattnaik – Director, Social Security & Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities
- Dr. Maheswar Swain – Director, Panchayati Raj
- Srikanta Tarai – President, Board of Secondary Education, Cuttack
- Birendra Korkora – Director, Secondary Education, Bhubaneswar
- Laxman Kumar Mallick – Director, Scheduled Caste Welfare
- Upama Kalo – Additional Commissioner, Settlement and Consolidation, Sambalpur-II
- Pradeep Kumar Nayak – Additional Commissioner, Additional Revisional Court, Bhubaneswar
- Premjit Nayak – Director, AYUSH, Odisha
- Jugaleswari Dash – Director, OBC, Bhubaneswar
District Collectors Kabindra Kumar Sahoo (Deogarh), Madhusudan Dash (Nuapada), and Subrat Kumar Panda (Boudh) will continue in their current posts.
This reshuffle aims to streamline governance and enhance administrative efficiency across Odisha’s departments.
