Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government appointed Supriya Sahu as Secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Department.
She has replaced outgoing Secretary Gagandeep Singh Bedi in a significant reorganization of senior IAS officers. A. Karthik, who is on leave, will be replaced as Secretary of the Higher Education Department by Pradeep Yadav.
Bedi has been appointed Secretary of the Department of Panchayat Raj and Rural Development.
Mangat Ram Sharma, who would succeed B. Chandra Mohan as Secretary of the Public Works Department, was named Secretary of the Department by a Government Order (G.O.) issued by Chief Secretary Shiv Das Meena.
R. Selvaraj was appointed Secretary of the Department of Highways and Minor Ports.
Here are the rest of the officials that were reshuffled:
K. Manivasan has been appointed Secretary of the Water Resources Department, replacing Sandeep Saxena, who will become Chairman and Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited. P. Senthil Kumar has been posted as Secretary of the Environment, Climate Change, and Forest Department.
B. Chandra Mohan is the new Secretary of the Tourism, Culture, and Religious Endowments Department, while A. John Louis has been appointed Director of Social Security Schemes.
M. Vijayalakshmi is now Director of Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy, and N. Venkatachalam is the Commissioner of Archives and Historical Research.
T.N. Hariharan takes over as Commissioner of Land Reforms, and R. Lilly has been posted as Special Secretary to the Government, Transport Department.
M. Sai Kumar will assume office as Chairman and Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Industrial Investments Corporation Limited. C.N. Maheswaran will become Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Salt Corporation Limited.
R. Vaithinathan will additionally hold full charge as Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation, and T.S. Jawahar will additionally hold full charge as Secretary of the Social Reforms Department.
