Thiruvananthapuram: July 29, 2025: The Government of Kerala has carried out a wide-ranging reshuffle of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, transferring four district collectors and reassigning several senior secretariat and department positions. The midnight order was issued late on Tuesday.
District Collector and Departmental Transfers
- NS K. Umesh, formerly Collector of Ernakulam, has been appointed Director General of Public Instruction and will also assume the additional charge of Managing Director of the Kerala Financial Corporation.
- G. Priyanka, previously Collector of Palakkad, becomes the new Collector of Ernakulam.
- MS Madhavikutty, Deputy Secretary in the Health Department, has been made Collector of Palakkad.
- V. Vigneshwari, outgoing Collector of Idukki, is now Additional Secretary in the Agriculture Department; Dr. Dineshan Cheruvatt, previously Director of Panchayats, fills the vacant Idukki Collector post.
- John V. Samuel, former Collector of Kottayam, has been appointed Director of the Water Transport Department. Chetankumar Meena, Additional Resident Commissioner in New Delhi, is the new Collector of Kottayam.