Bhubaneswar: Effecting a minor reshuffle in IAS cadre, the Odisha government Monday posted the Khurda district collector Roopa Rosan Sahu as the new joint secretary to the chief minister. The additional secretary to planning and convergence department, Pradip Biswal, has been posted as additional secretary to general administration department. He would be holding the additional charge of public grievance department. Biswal has been replaced by DK Jena as the additional secretary to planning & convergence department with additional charge of director of institutional finance.
Similarly, the state government has carried out a reshuffled in the senior Indian Forest Service cadres. Senior IFS officer Subash Chandra Mishra has been appointed as the principal chief conservator of forest (PCCF). The Keonjhar DFO Rohit Kumar Lenka has been posted as GM OFDC. He has been replaced by Sambalpur DFO Santosh Joshi. The Rourkela DFO Sanjit Kumar has replaced Joshi at Sambalpur. Athamallick DFO KS Pradeep has been posted as Baliguda DFO replacing Karthick V, who has been posted as Angul DFO. While Phulbani DFO Prakash Chandra Gogineni has been posted as Padampur DFO, Baripada DFO Sanjay Kumar Swain has been posted as Rourkela DFO in place of Dr Sanjeet Kumar and Nabarangpur DFO Swayam Mallick has replaced Sanjay Kumar Swain as DFO Baripada. Koraput DFO P Arthanari has been posted as Sambalpur DFO. In addition to this, . Rayagada DFO Poreddy Sanjeeva Reddy has been posted as DCF, PCCF office. Likewise, Boudh DFO Satyanarayan Beura has been posted as DFC (Nodal), PCCF office.