Karnataka IAS officers Rohini Sindhuri and Shilpa Nag transferred

Days after the tussle between Mysuru City Corporation Commissioner Shilpa Nag and Mysuru Deputy Commissioner, Rohini Sindhuri Dasari, the Karnataka government issued orders transferring both of them, effecting a minor shakeup of the bureaucracy in the state.

The transfers notified late Saturday night come after chief secretary P Ravi Kumar reviewed the situation where both the deputy commissioner of Mysore and the Mysore city corporation commissioner were on warpath.

Two days ago, MCC commissioner Shilpa Nag had threatened to quit over “humiliation and harassment" by DC Rohini Sindhuri.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, Nag, during the press conference, said that “as MCC Commissioner, I could have served a notice to Sindhuri over the issue, but I did not do so.”

On Thursday, Nag, a 2014-batch IAS officer who is MCC Commissioner since February 2021, said, “Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri is constantly calling the higher-ups and complaining to them that no work is being done in the MCC. There is no conducive environment to work in Mysuru, and, thus, I am resigning from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and will send the resignation letter to the Chief Secretary seeking to be relieved from my duties.”

Sindhuri has been appointed as Commissioner for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, a post she had held earlier. Nag has been posted as Director (e-Governance) at the RDPR department, where she was before her Mysuru assignment.

In other transfers, the government has given BBMP Special Commissioner (Health & IT) P Rajendra Cholan concurrent charge as BESCOM managing director. Dayananda KA has been appointed as BBMP Special Commissioner (Administration).

D. Bagdi Gahum posted as the deputy commissioner of Mysuru:

Dr Bagdi Gahum, the additional commissioner for commercials taxes for Bengaluru, has now been posted as the deputy commissioner of Mysuru “with immediate effect” and will replace Rohini Sindhuri. And, Lakshmikanth Reddy will be the new Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) commissioner.