Overview
- The state issued Sunday evening transfer orders reassigning senior IAS officers, with reports variously counting 26 or 33 moves.
- Indore’s former municipal commissioner Dilip Yadav was posted as managing director of the state tourism corporation two weeks after his removal over the water contamination deaths.
- Health leadership changed as Commissioner Tarun Rathi shifted to Tribal Development and Dhanraju S. was appointed Commissioner, Health Services.
- Additional Chief Secretary Shivshekhar Shukla lost the Tourism portfolio but continues to head Home, Culture and Religious Trusts, while Ilaiya Raja was posted as Tourism secretary and managing director of the Tourism Development Board.
- Shobhit Jain was appointed Principal Secretary, AYUSH, and the overhaul was reported to precede Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s scheduled trips to Delhi and Davos.