The Tamil Nadu government on Friday made some key changes at the higher bureaucracy by transferring Beela Rajesh IAS to the Commercial Taxes and Registration Department and bringing back J Radhakrishnan IAS as the Health Secretary.
The transfer order comes at a time when the state has over 38,000 cases with more than 27,000 cases in Chennai.
Dr. Beela Rajesh IAS has been posted as Secretary to Government, Commercial Taxes and Registration Department in the place of N Muruganandam IAS, who was holding the additional charge.
Though Dr. Radhakrishnan has been appointed as the Principal Secretary to the Health and Family Welfare Department, he will continue to hold the post of Principal Secretary/Commissioner of Revenue Administration until further orders.
A 1992 batch IAS officer, Dr. Radhakrishnan is known for his work during the 2004 Tsunami and the Kumbakonam school fire accident that happened in June the same year. Since then, Dr. Radhakrishnan has become the face of disaster management in the state. In November last year during Diwali, he was coordinating the rescue of the child Sujith Wilson who had fallen into a borewell and met with an unfortunate end. Earlier he was appointed as the Special Nodal Officer by the state government to coordinate the efforts against the pandemic.