State govt transfers several top IAS officers in major reshuffle

Time of India

30-07-2025

T'puram: In a major reshuffle involving top IAS officers, govt transferred several officials, including four district collectors. Priyanka G, Palakkad collector, will be the new Ernakulam collector.
Madhavikutty M S is the new Palakkad collector.
Chetan Kumar Meena, additional resident commissioner at Kerala House in New Delhi, was appointed as the new Kottayam collector. Dinesan Cheruvat, director of panchayats, is the new Idukki collector.
Among the reshuffle of other bureaucrats, K Vasuki, secretary, labour and skills department, was transferred and posted as secretary, general education department.
Shanavas S, director of general education, was posted as special secretary, labour and skills department. The officer will hold full additional charge of the post of director of panchayats.
Sheeba George, additional secretary, revenue department, was posted as additional secretary, health and family welfare department. Chithra S, additional secretary and officer on special duty, local self govt department, is now the additional secretary, general education department.
Geetha A, joint commissioner, land revenue, was transferred and posted as additional secretary, revenue department. Geromic George, on return from study leave, is posted as principal director, local self govt department.
Umesh NSK, Ernakulam collector, is now the director of general education. The officer will hold the full additional charge of managing director, Kerala Financial Corporation. V Vigneshwari, Idukki collector, was transferred and posted as additional secretary, agriculture department.
The officer will hold the full additional charges of deputy project director, Kerala Climate Resilient Agri-Value Chain Modernization Project (KERA) and director, Centre for Continuing Education Kerala.
John V Samuel, Kottayam collector, was posted as director, state water transport department. Nizamudeen A, mission director, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, is now the director, Kerala Institute of Local Administration.
Sreedhanya Suresh, inspector general of registration, was posted as additional director (general), tourism. Aswathy Srinivas, managing director, Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited, is the new additional resident commissioner, Kerala House, New Delhi. The officer will hold the full additional charge of director, Kerala state insurance department.
Arun J O, director, backward classes development department, was posted as chief operating officer, Township Project Wayanad.
Meera K, sub collector Fort Kochi, is now the director, survey and land records department.
Mithun Premraj, sub collector Ottapalam, is transferred and posted as joint commissioner, land revenue. Misal Sagar Bharat, sub collector, Mananthavady, is now the deputy secretary and officer on special duty, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and backward classes development department.
Harshil R Meena, sub collector, Kozhikode, was posted as director, Environment and Climate Change. Jayakrishnan V M, sub collector, Devikulam, is the new managing director, Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited.