By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: With outside returnees are all set to hit their home land after the COVID-19 lockdown gets over by May 3, the Naveen Patnaik Government in Odisha has appointed 22 senior IAS officers as COVID-19 observers to various districts.
As per the Government notification, Anu Garg, and N.Tirumala Nayak will man Bhubaneswar City followed Madhu Sudan Padhi and Ratnakar Rout for Balasore and Bhadrak, Saurabh Garg and Susanta Mohapatra for Cuttack City and Cuttack Rural, Surendra Kumar and Srikant Prusty for Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar, G.Mathivathanan and Krishan Kumar for Ganjam and Gajapati
Hemant Sharma and Suresh Chandra Dalai for Jajpur, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara, Bishnupada Sethi and Gopabandhu Satpathy for Angul, Deogarh and Dhenkanal, Sushil Kumar Lohani and Benudhar Behera for Bolangir, Bargarh and Nuapada, Saswata Mishra and Bishnu Prasad Mishra for Kalahandi, Kandhamal and Boudh, V.V. Yadav and Rashid Khan for Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada and Nabarangpur, Anil Kumar Samal for Nayagarh, Puri, Cuttack Rural, Khordha Rural, Niranjan Sahu for Sambalpur, Sonepur, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh
This apart, the Odisha Government posted Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra as Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Family Welfare. He will be in additional charge of Revenue and Disaster Management Department. Nikunj Kumar Dhal, will continue to be the Principal Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Department.
The observers will review the preparedness at the district level and coordinate various other COVID-19 related activities. Worth mentioning a large number people of Odisha residing outside the State are expected to return after the lockdown restrictions are lifted.In a statement, the government said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has been taking stock of the COVID-19 situation on a day-to-day basis and has directed the appointment of the observers.
