CHENNAI: In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Tamil Nadu government transferred 40 IAS officers, including 14 district collectors, on Friday. As per the new transfer list, collector of Nagappattinam P Akash has been transferred as the collector of Madurai, and Madurai collector KJ Praveen Kumar has been transferred as collector of Nagapattinam.
Dr R Vaithiyanathan, formerly director, DIPR, has been posted as collector of Theni, and Tiruchy collector V Saravanan has been posted as the collector of Dharmapuri.
While joint secretary of Finance department Pratik Tayal has been posted as Tiruchy collector, Thiruvallur collector M Prathap has been transferred as Kanniyakumari collector.
Vandana Garg, who has returned from leave, has been posted as the collector in Tiruvannamalai, and additional collector, DRDA, in Villupuram district JE Padmaja has been posted as the collector of Kallakkuruchi.
N Priya, the MD of TNUHDB will be the new collector of Ranipet, and L Madhubalan, commissioner of Trichy Corporation has been posted as the new collector of Namakkal.
Anand Mohan, JMD, TWAD has been posted as the collector of Tirunelveli, and PS Leela Alex, MD of Chennai Rivers Transformation Company Limited, has been posted as the new collector of Vellore.
While R Revathi, deputy secretary of Higher Education, is the new collector of Thanjavur, Dr M Veerappan, additional registrar of cooperative societies, is the new collector of Chengalpattu.