For Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Satyabrata Sahoo, who was replaced in the post by Archana Patnaik a few days back on the orders of the Election Commission of India, was made the secretary for Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare department in a shuffle of senior IAS officers on Monday. To the post of Secretary to MSMEs that was held by Archana Patnaik, before she was shifted out to take charge as CEO, Atul Anand, who was Labour Commissioner, was posted, while M Aarthi was made Deputy Secretary to the Deputy Chief Minister in addition to the post of State Project Director for Samagra Shiksha that she was holding earlier. Among the other transfers announced were the placing of the services of A Arun Thamburaj with the National Health Mission for appointment as its Mission Director in the place of Shilpa Prabhakar Satish, who has been made the director of tourism and managing director of Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation.

C Samayamoorthy, who was the director of tourism, has been appointed as secretary of the human resources management department in the place of C Vijayaraj Kumar, who was holding the job as an additional responsibility..