Chennai: In a significant bureaucratic reshuffle, the Tamil Nadu authorities on Tuesday transferred dwelling secretary P Amudha, amongst 60 others.
She has been changed with Dheeraj Kumar, at the moment extra chief secretary to authorities, and holds cost of knowledge know-how and digital companies division. Kumar has additionally been allotted the house, prohibition and excise division.
Amudha has been posted as principal secretary, income and catastrophe administration division.
The reshuffle comes shut within the heels of the homicide of two political leaders within the state — Okay Armstrong of Bahujan Samaj Get together (BSP) and Naam Tamilar Katchi’s Balasubramanian in Madurai.
Chief minister MK Stalin introduced in these transfers after his ruling DMK authorities and the Tamil Nadu police got here beneath mounting criticism from the opposition over the legislation and order within the state.
On June 3, an AIADMK functionary M Shanmugam was murdered in Salem. Police had arrested a DMK ward councillor Dhanabhagiyam of the Salem municipal company, her husband Sathish and 12 others stating that it was a private enmity over native growth work.
Amudha’s switch comes every week after the Larger Chennai police commissioner Sandeep Rai Rathore was shunted out following Armstrong’s homicide.
“The current incidents have created a notion that legislation and order is majorly affected and we consider these transfers will impact some needed modifications,” a senior authorities official mentioned on situation of anonymity.
The federal government additionally transferred various different senior officers, together with Larger Chennai Company Commissioner Dr J Radhakrishnan and posted him as Further Chief Secretary, Cooperation, Meals and Shopper Safety Division, vice Dr Okay Gopal.
Senior IAS officer Kumar Jayant has been transferred and posted as Further Chief Secretary to Authorities, Data Know-how and Digital Companies Division, in accordance with a Public (Particular A) Division order.
J Kumaragurubaran, Secretary, Faculty Schooling Division, succeeds Radhakrishnan within the metropolis civic physique.
Equally, many district collectors had been additionally transferred.