Hyderabad: One of the senior-most Indian Administrative Service officers in Andhra Pradesh, M Chaya Ratan, was on Tuesday appointed Special Chief Secretary (Home) in a bureaucratic reshuffle involving over a dozen officers.
In all 13 IAS officers, including two District Collectors, were transferred this evening, official sources said.
Chaya Ratan, who belongs to the 1977 batch, takes the place of BP Acharya, who was arrested last month by the CBI in the Emaar Properties scandal.
Incidentally, her husband M Ratan, a Director General of Police rank officer, was appointed as a State Information Commissioner under the Right to Information Act today.
Acharya's IAS-wife, Ranjeev R Acharya (1983 batch), was not given any posting as she proceeded on leave following the arrest of her husband. D Sambasiva Rao of 1986 batch has been appointed in her place as Principal Secretary (Fiscal Policy) in the Finance Department.
Among the other significant postings, 1994-batch officer Praveen Prakash was made Commissioner of Public Health and Family in the vacancy caused by the arrest of 1988-batch officer Y Srilakshmi in the iron ore illegal mining case.
The Government overlooked the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority Act and appointed 1997-batch officer J Shyamala Rao as the Metropolitan Commissioner in place of 1986-batch officer Rajeshwar Tiwari, who was moved out as Principal Secretary (School Education).
As per the Act, a Secretary rank officer should be appointed as the Metropolitan Commissioner but Rao is only of Additional Secretary rank.
Neetu Kumari Prasad of 2001 batch was posted as District Magistrate of East Godavari, while Anita Rajendra (1999) will take over the same post in Prakasam.
"The Hyderabad Metropolitan Commissioner's post has been further downgraded. As per the original Act, the post was earmarked for a Principal Secretary rank officer but later downgraded through an amendment to the Secretary rank to accommodate one particular officer," a top bureaucrat pointed out.
M Dana Kishore, a 1996 batch officer who has been at loggerheads with the Chairperson of AP Pollution Control Board of which he was a Member-Secretary, has been shifted to Minorities Welfare Department as Secretary.
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