HYDERABAD: Telangana chief minister
K Chandrasekhar Rao
is expected to effect a major
administrative reshuffle
on Saturday and transfer about 28 IAS and 26 IPS officers in the state.
This exercise is designed to ensure that all districts which are coming into existence on October 11, will get a district collector and a district superintendent of police. The chief minister is expected to finalise the names of district collectors and SPs. Chandrasekhar Rao will also finalise names for newly formed police commissionerates in Karimnagar, Siricilla, Siddipet and
Ramagundam
after holding discussion with
Karimnagar district leaders
. The government has already decided to appoint IG cadre IPS officers as commissioners in the new commissionerates.
GHMC additional commissioner
Surendra Mohan, environment secretary Manick Raj, GHMC zonal commisioner Gourav Uppal, marketing commissioner A Sarath and Medak district joint collector C Ven katram Reddy are expected to be elevated as district collectors.
Chandrasekhar Rao told staff at his office to finalise the names of joint collectors and deputy collectors for each district based on the available group-1 officers in the districts. All the joint collectors in districts that are going to be divided into two, will become collectors for the new district carved out of the existing district.All additional SPs working in the districts will be promoted to SP cadre to work in the new districts. The chief minister also directed all departments to prepare a list of officials who are working in the new district and make it public latest by October 10.
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