Maharashtra IAS Reshuffle: Four Officers Transferred; IAS Tukaram Mundhe Made Commissioner, FDA

Mumbai, May 21 (APAC Media): The Maharashtra government has transferred four IAS officers in a fresh bureaucratic reshuffle. Senior IAS Tukaram Mundhe has been appointed as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 

Mundhe is a 2005-batch IAS officer and is known for his strict administrative style, anti-corruption stance, and uncompromising adherence to rules. In April 2026, Mundhe was transferred as Secretary of the Disability Welfare Department and was also appointed Principal Secretary in the Disaster Management, Relief and Rehabilitation Department.

Other transfers are as follows:

• IAS Kanhuraj Bagate has been appointed Managing Director of the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL). He succeeds IAS Ashwini Bhide, who was recently appointed as the municipal commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.
• IAS Shridhar Dube, previously serving as FDA Commissioner, has been transferred and posted as Chief Executive Officer of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Slum Rehabilitation Authority.
• IAS R S Chavan has been appointed Managing Director of the Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical Corporation. 

Apart from these transfer postings, IAS Sanjay Khandare, currently Additional Chief Secretary (Tourism), has been given additional charge as Additional Chief Secretary of the Food and Drug Administration.

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