15 collectors transferred in Bhubaneshwar

BHUBANESWAR: The state government on Friday transferred 27 senior bureaucrats, including 15 district collectors. According to an official notification, the new collectors are Bishnu Prasad Sahu (Malkangiri), Balwant Singh (Keonjhar), M Muthukumar (Nuapada), Yamini Sarangi (Nabarangpur), Naba Kumar Nayak (Puri), Arvind Agarwal (Angul), Bhupendra Singh Poonia (Kandhamal), Rajesh Pravakar Patil (Mayurbhanj), Satya Kumar Mallick (Jagatsinghpur), Durga Prasad Behera (Kendrapada), Ranjit Mohanty (Balasore), Basudev Bahanipati (Gajapati), Sashi Bhushan Padhi (Rayagada), Ravindra Pratap Singh (Sonepur) and Debraj Mishra (Balangir) have also got new collectors.
Further, commissioner, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), Vishal Dev has been made the vice-chairman, Bhubaneswar Development Authority. Additional secretary, housing and urban development, Sanjiv Kumar Mishra has been posted as commissioner, BMC, while Rayagada collector N B Jawale will take over as the excise commissioner. Keonjhar collector D V Swamy has been posted as commissioner, Cuttack Municipal Corporation. Sailendra Narayan Dey, who was Balangir collector, will join as officer-on-special duty to the chief secretary. tnn