By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: General Administration and Public Grievance Department has issued a notification to this effect Friday, which stated that 2000-batch IAS officer, Sujata Rout Karthikeyan, Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Department of Mission Shakti with an additional charge of Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Govt., Odia Language, Literature & Culture Department, has been appointed as Special Secretary to Government, Finance Department.
2001-batch IAS officer, Shalini Pandit, Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Govt. the Health & Family Welfare Department can remain in an additional charge of Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Government, Department of Mission Shakti and Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Government, Odia Language, Literature & Culture Department.
The move came a day after the Election Commission of India ordered the transfer of senior bureaucrat Sujata Karthikeyan, secretary of Odisha’s Mission Shakti department, to a non-public dealing department with immediate effect.