Major administrative reshuffle in Tamil Nadu

In a major administrative reshuffle, IAS officers have been given new postings in Tamil Nadu. Rajendra Ratnoo, who was serving on Central Government deputation, has been appointed as the Principal Secretary/Member Secretary, Chennai Rivers Restoration Trust,  while Shilpa Prabhakar Satish takes over as Secretary, Commercial Tax Department and S Vijayakumar has taken charge as ACS/ Commissioner,  Land Reforms; Similarly, Dr M Vallalar has been given FAC of Secretary, Social Reforms Department, C Samayamoorthy as Secretary, Human Resource Management Department; S Nagarajan as Commissioner, Commercial Tax; Dr P Shankar as Secretary, Higher Education; G Prakash as PS/Member Secretary, CMDA; Dr S Prabhakar as Secretary, TNIAMP; N Venkatesh as Special Secretary, Finance; Mrs R Lilly as Special Secretary, Transport; S Ganesh as Special Secretary, Municipal Administration & Drinking Water Supply; Veer Pratap Singh as Deputy Secretary, Heritage; Mrs K M Sarayu as Joint Secretary, Housing & Urban Development; Dr Durai Ravichandran as Vice Chairman & MD, Watershed Development Agency; Mrs K Karpagam as Joint Secretary, Higher Education; Mrs R V Shanjeevana as MD, Women's Developmemnt Corporation; Mrs Shreya P Singh as MD, Urban Habitat Development Board; P Madhusudhan as Director, Municipal Administration; S Sivarasu as MD, TNUIFSL; Dr J Vijaya Rani as MD, Warehousing Company; T C Raj as Director, Tourism; Mrs Grace Bachau as Addl Secretary, Revenue & Disaster Management; Dr S Uma as Addl Secretary, Special Projects Implementation; Dr V P Jayaseelan as Joint Commissioner, Health, GCC; Mrs M S Sangeetha as Director, Social Welfare; M Pradeep Kumar as Director, Municipalities Mrs Asha Ajith as COO, Rural Innovation Program; M P Amit as Commissioner, Tirpur City Corporation; H R Kaushik as RDC (Central), GCC; Dr Monika Rana as Commissioner, Tirunelveli City Corporation; V Madhubalan as Commissioner, Trichy City Corporation; Banoth Lal as Commissioner, Thoothukudi Municipal Corporation; Mrs R Saranya as Commissioner, Avadi City Corporation and Rajagopala Sunkara is now Director, Survey and Land Planning.