Departments merged, officials reshuffled

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Chennai, Jan 2 (UNI) The Tamil Nadu Government has decided to merge the departments of Prohibition and Excise with Home and will form a new department.

According to a release issued by Chief Secretary L K Tripathy, the departments of Tourism and Culture would also be clubbed and a new department 'Tourism and Culture' would be formed in the place of the Information and Tourism department.

The Government had also further decided to club together 'Tamil Development, Religious Endowments' and 'Information' and form the new department of 'Tamil Development, Religious Endowments and Information Department' in the place of the Tamil Development, Culture and Religious Endowments Department, he added.

Meanwhile, in a minor reshuffle in bureaucracy, Tamil Nadu Handicrafts Development Corporation Chairman and Managing Director D Rajendran was transferred and posted as Secretary in the newly-formed Tamil Development, Religious Endowments and Information Department in the place of R Karpoorasundarapandian.

Mr Karpoorasundarapandian had been posted as Special Commissioner and Commissioner of Rehabilitation in the place of P W C Davidar, holding additional charge.

Information and Tourism Secretary V Iraianbu was transferred and posted as Secretary in the newly-formed Tourism and Culture department.

Prohibition and Excise Department Secretary S K Prabhakar will take over as MD of the Tamil Nadu Industrial Investment Corporation in place of Ms Santha Sheela Nair, who currently holds additional charge.

K A Mathew, formerly Chairman, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, will now take over as Chairman and Managing Director of the Tamil Nadu Handicrafts Development Corporation vice D Rajendran.

The Government directed that Home Secretary S Malathi would function as Home, Prohibition and Excise Secretary, the release added.

UNI

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