CHENNAI, JULY 16
Tamil Nadu Home Secretary, others were transferred in a major bureaucratic reshuffle. The state Home Secretary has been replaced with Dheeraj Kumar, currently Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Information Technology and Digital Services Department.
Amudha was among more than 60 IAS officers who were transferred from their current posts in a major reshuffle of bureaucrats carried out by Chief Minister M K Stalin’s dispensation.
Amudha, a no-nonsense officer known for her integrity, was replaced with Dheeraj Kumar, an officer in the rank of Additional Chief Secretary who was the IT secretary.
The woman bureaucrat will now be the secretary of Revenue and Disaster Management Department and her transfer comes after the Tamil Nadu Police came under relentless attack from Opposition parties and activists over the deteriorating law and order situation.
- The state Home Secretary has been replaced with Dheeraj Kumar, currently Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Information Technology and Digital Services Department
Amudha’s transfer also comes a week after the government shunted out Chennai city police commissioner Sandeep Rai Rathore and his senior colleagues, including Additional Commissioner (North) following Armstrong’s murder. Prior to the murder, the government, especially the police and Home department which is under Stalin, came under attack for failing to prevent the hooch tragedy in Kallakurichi.
Sources in the government said the transfers were part of a major rehaul of the bureaucracy.
