Senior bureaucrat and secretary in Telangana Chief Minister’s Office Smita Sabharwal has been transferred and posted as member secretary of the TS Finance Corporation relieving another IAS officer Sandeep Kumar Sultania from the full additional charge of the post.
Ms. Smita Sabharwal, considered a high profile officer in the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Government, has also been relieved from the full additional charge as Irrigation Secretary she was holding in the previous Government. Ms. Smita Sabharwal will be replaced by another senior officer GAD secretary (political) Rahul Bojja. Agriculture Secretary M. Raghunandan Rao has been placed in the full additional charge as GAD secretary (political).
The transfers form part of the first major reshuffle of IAS officers since the Congress Government took over the reins in Telangana on December 9. As many as 26 IAS officers had been transferred and given new postings. MCR HRD Institute additional director Benhur Mahesh Dutt Ekka is transferred and posted as Industries and Commerce (Mines and Geology) department principal secretary relieving Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari who was holding the full additional charge of the post.
