Telangana IAS' reshuffle: 11 district collectors transferred

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Aug 29, 2018, 15:22 IST

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Telangana IAS' reshuffle: 11 district collectors transferred

On transfer, Yogita Rana has been posted as director, Public Health and Family Welfare, relieving Vakati Karuna from full additional charge

HYDERABAD: The state government on Tuesday effected 11 transfers of IAS officers, including that of Hyderabad district collector. The transfers come in the backdrop of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao toying with the idea of going in for early Assembly polls.
Ranga Reddy district collector M Raghunandan Rao has been transferred and posted as Hyderabad district collector in place of Yogita Rana.On transfer, she has been posted as director, Public Health and Family Welfare, relieving Vakati Karuna from full additional charge. Khammam collector Lokesh Kumar has been posted as RR collector.
Two other significant transfers are that of Rajanna-Sircilla and Siddipet districts. The transfer of collectors for these two districts is a swap. While municipal administration minister KT Rama Rao represents Sircilla in the Assembly, irrigation minister Harish Rao represents Siddipet constituency. Siddipet collector P Venkata Rami Reddy has been posted as Rajanna Sircilla district collector in place of D Krishna Bhaskar, who has been transferred as Siddipet collector.
A transfer has also been effected in Gajwel, from where KCR is an MLA. M Hanumantha Rao, special officer, Gajwel Area Development Authority, has been transferred and posted as Sanga Reddy district collector replacing V Venkateswarlu.

Kumrambheen-Asifabad district collector Patil Prashant Jeevan has been transferred and posted as Warangal urban district collector in place of Amrapali Kata, who has been transferred. However, no posting has been mentioned for her.
Bhadradri-Kothagudem collector Rajeevgandhi Hanumantha has been posted as Kumrambheen-Asifabad district collector. Mancherial district collector RV Karnan has been transferred and posted as Khammam collector. Sangareddy collector V Venkateshwarlu has been transferred and posted as Jayashankar-Bhupalapally collector in place of D Amoy Kumar, who will take over as Bhadradri-Kothagudem collector.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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