Over seven months into administering Andhra Pradesh, the Chandrababu Naidu government has affected a major reshuffle in the top rungs of bureaucracy and police.
A total of 25 IAS officers and 27 IPS officers were transferred, according to two separate orders issued Monday evening by Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand.
While a few of the IPS officers who kept waiting for months—a delay being attributed to their alleged proximity with leaders of the opposition YSRCP—were given loop line postings, the wait continues for others.
Yerra Srilakshmi (1988 batch), Muralidhar Reddy (2006), Mutyalaraju Revu (2007), Madhavi Latha (2014) and Neelakanta Reddy (2017)—all of whom are attached to the General Administration Department (GAD)—are awaiting postings since June i.e., soon after Naidu took over.
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