Maharashtra reshuffle: Three administrators transferred; Sanjay Khandare appointed additional chief secretary of forest department

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The Maharashtra government on Monday selected senior IAS officer Sanjay Khandare as Additional Chief Secretary (forest department) in a top-level restructuring involving three administrators.

Khandare, a 1996-cadre officer, who was serving as Additional Chief Secretary for Tourism, has been reassigned to the forest department and will be posted at Mantralaya as the state secretariat in Mumbai, as per an order issued by the General Administration Department (GAD).

Sanjay Yadav, a 2009-cadre IAS officer currently serving as State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, Mumbai, has been assigned as the secretary of the tourism department at Mantralaya, said the order.

Another civil servant, Vaishnavi B, an officer of the 2019-cadre, has been moved and posted as the Additional Divisional Commissioner, Nagpur division.

(With inputs from PTI)