Sources said that the transfer of joint secretary in the Higher Education department, Dhirendranath Kar to Nayagarh as ADM has been cancelled.

According to a notification issued by the General Administration department on Friday, senior OAS officer and Jharsuguda ADM Lankeswar Amat has been transferred and posted as the ADM of Kalinganagar.

Similarly, joint commissioner of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (SMC) Anita Patra has been posted as Jagatsinghpur ADM.

Deputy collector of Keonjhar Ramachandra Kisku has been posted as the administrative officer of Keonjhar Government Medical College and Hospital, while Basant Kumar Sethi has been posted as the executive officer of Keonjhar Municipality.

Similarly, Trilochan Mohanty has been posted as the deputy collector of Keonjhar, while Ipsita Priyadarshini Mishra has been posted as the joint commissioner of CMC and Sudhanshu Kumar Bhoin posted as the project director of Ganjam district urban development authority (DUDA).

Pallabi Nayak has been posted as the joint commissioner of Rourkela Municipal Corporation, while Suraj Kmar Patnaik was transferred to Sonepur as deputy collector.

Similarly, block development officer (BDO) of Hinjilikatu in Ganjam district, Subrat Kumar Jena has been posted as the administrative officer in the office of the CDMO in Berhampur, while Amit Sarkar has been posted as the ADM of Koraput and Madhusmita Samantray was posted as the executive officer of Baripada Municipality.

Minister Sri Nayak reviewed various activities of the department in details yesterday. Though it was a holiday, the review was a crucial one and continued for more than two hours. A dedicated pension cell should start functioning immediately and the employees must receive their pension on the very day of retirement. All the pending pension cases must be cleared up within specific time line , he directed .

All out efforts be made to fill up the vacancies of teaching and non-teaching staff in the colleges. He impressed upon the officers to create a database of all the faculty of the Government aided /GIA colleges through a Software so that the vacancy can be monitored and rationalized. Also reviewed the status of RUSA and World Bank funding, Students scholarships and others. A detailed discussion was made on further improvement in standard of higher education and development of educational Institutions in the state . The provision / allotment of funds in different heads be utilised properly in due time . Measure to be taken to achieve higher NAAC ranking and participation in National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was also discussed.

While advised the officers of the department to maintain absolute integrity and transparency ,Sri Nayak has warned for any deviation to this will not be tolerated .He has asked the secretary Higher Education to personally review the funds pending in various colleges and ensure its early utilization.

Among others Arabinda Agrawal Secretary Higher Education , other departmental Officers were present in the review meeting held in Lok Seva Bhawan.