Tamil Nadu home secretary, metro rail chief shifted
In a reshuffle of senior bureaucrats in the state government, senior IAS officer Apurva Varma.
Chennai: In a reshuffle of senior bureaucrats in the state government, senior IAS officer Apurva Varma has been transferred and posted as the principal secretary to government, home, prohibition and excise department. He is presently the principal secretary to government, higher education department, a release said.
Dr Niranjan Mardi, holding the post of the home secretary to the government along with prohibition and excise department, was transferred and posted as the principal secretary/commissioner of economics and statistics.
Chennai Metro Rail Ltd MD K. Rajaraman, IAS, also holding the post of the principal secretary to the government, special initiatives department, besides member secretary of the SDAT, wastransferred and posted as the principal secretary/commissioner of commercial taxes.
Pankaj Kumar Bansal, director of the Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project, will be MD of the Chennai Metro Rail Ltd.
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Chennai: Other senior bureaucrats who have been transferred include present commissioner of commercial taxes Dr K. Manivasan who will now take charge as the state commissioner for the welfare of differently abled persons and Dr. V. Irai Anbul, principal secretary and commissioner of economics and statistics, is transferred and posted as director, Anna Institute of Management and director general of training, the release added.
While V.K. Jeyakodi who is presently state commissioner for welfare of differently abled persons will be appointed as member secretary, Sports Development Authority of TN, N.S. Palaniappan who is presently principal secretary to government, Rural Development has been placed in full additional charge of the post of principal secretary to higher education department.