State Government Appoints Senior IAS Officers as Special Officers

Senior IAS officer R. P. Sisodia will serve as the zonal in-charge officer for the coastal belt, overseeing preparedness from West Godavari to Chittoor districts. Another senior official, Ajay Jain, has been entrusted with the Visakhapatnam zone, covering Srikakulam to Konaseema districts, which are expected to experience strong winds and heavy rainfall during the cyclone’s landfall.

Other senior officers have been allotted to various districts to strengthen field-level coordination: K. V. N. Chakradhara Babu (Srikakulam), Pattanshetti Ravi Subash (Vizianagaram), Narayana Bharath Gupta (Manyam), Vadarevu Vinay Chand (ASR), K. Kanna Babu (East Godavari), V. R. Krishna Teja (Kakinada), Vijaya Rama Raju (Konaseema), V. Prasanna Venkatesh (West Godavari), Kantilal Dande (Eluru), Amrapali Kata (Krishna), Shashi Bhushan Kumar (NTR), M. Venu Gopal Reddy (Bapatla), Kona Sasidhar (Prakasam), Dr N. Yuvaraj (Nellore), P. Arun Babu (Tirupati), and P. S. Girisha (Chittoor).

As per the order, these officers will coordinate rescue, relief and restoration activities, ensuring last-mile delivery of essential services to the affected population. They will also oversee the enumeration of losses, disbursal of compensation, and restoration of normalcy post-cyclone.

The Chief Secretary emphasised that all departments — revenue, panchayat raj, energy, roads and buildings, water resources, and health — must work in close coordination under the supervision of these special officers.

With experienced officers such as Sisodia and Ajay Jain leading from the front, and a strong administrative team positioned across coastal districts, the government is fully geared up to minimise the impact of Cyclone Montha and safeguard lives and property along Andhra Pradesh’s coastline.