In a significant reshuffle of civil servants, the Tamil Nadu government on Sunday replaced Home Secretary S.K. Prabakar with senior IAS officer K. Phanindra Reddy and Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan with P. Senthil Kumar. It also shifted many other officers, including some Collectors.
Mr. Prabakar and Mr. Radhakrishnan were among the few officials to have been retained in their Departments after the change in government in May last year. While Mr. Prabakar was appointed as the Home Secretary in late 2019, when the AIADMK was in power, Mr. Radhakrishnan was brought back as Health Secretary in June 2020 and retained by the subsequent DMK government amid the outbreak of the second wave of COVID-19.