Odisha Govt makes key changes in IAS postings

The Odisha Government has made key changes in the postings of IAS officers which also includes one IPS and one IFoS officer. Accordingly, Asit Kumar Tripathy, Development Commissioner and Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Home, has been handed over additional charge of Chief Administrator, KBK, Koraput, Sudershan Pal Thakur has been shifted as Director General, Training Coordination Gopabandhu Academy of Administration, Bhubaneswar, C J Venugopal, ACS Electronics and Information Technology department has been transferred to Member, Board of Revenue, Cuttack, Niten Chandra, Principal Secretary, SSEPD had been posted as OSD, General Administration and Public Grievance Department, Principal Secretary, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Department, Deoranjan Kumar Singh has been given additional charge of the Department of Science and Technology, Ranjana Chopra has been posted as Principal Secretary, ST & SC Development, Minorities and Backward classes, Sushil kumar Lohani, Secretary, Excise has been given additional charge as Commissioner, Commercial Taxes(CCT), Cuttack, Vir Vikram Yadav, Secretary Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare has been given additional charge of Department of Cooperation, Arun Bothra, IG Police, CID, CB, Odisha has been posted as CEO, CESU, Odisha, R.Raghu Prasad, Secretary, ST & SC Development has been posted as Secretary Fisheries and Animal Resources Development with additional charge as MD, OMFED, Vishal Gagan, Secretary Fisheries and Animal Resources Development has been posted as  Special Secretary, Department of Water Resources, Bhaskar Jyoti Sarma, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology department has been posted as Secretary SSEPD, Krishan Kumar has been posted as Secretary, Works, Archana Patnaik has been posted as Special Secretary, Water Resources with additional charge of MD OLIC Ltd, Sachin Ramchandra Jadhav has been posted as Director, ST, Odisha, Bhubaneswar, Sadique Alam, CEO, CESU has been posted as Executive Director, CMGI, Bhubaneswar and Surendra Kumar Meena, Secretary Board of Revenue had been given additional charge as Deputy Secretary, Works.