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Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday transferred at least 13 officials of the Indian Police Service and three officers of the Indian Administrative Service, sources said on Friday.
According to a notification issued by the government, four IPS officers -- Sunil Kumar Ray, M N Das, R N Padhi, and Gopabandhu Mallik -- were promoted to the rank of deputy inspector general of police.
Nine district superintendents of police from Sundargarh, Raigada, Bolangir, Dhenkanal, Bargarh, Malkangiri, Nayagarh, Khurda, and Keonjhar were also transferred.
The IAS officers to be transferred were School and Mass Education Secretary H K Panda, Revenue Divisional Commissioner Jagadananda Panda and Managing Director of the Orissa State Financial Corporation S N Tripathy.
They were posted as managing director Industrial Development Corporation, secretary school and mass education department and revenue divisional commissioner respectively, it said.
The opposition had charged that the Patnaik government was not functioning. As a result, many leaders of the ruling Biju Janata Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party combine were pressurising Patnaik to effect a bureaucratic reshuffle.
A government official claimed that the transfers were routine. However, sources said the move was to satisfy dissidents in the party.
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