Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu all set to gear up administration brining new faces with a mini reshuffle of AIS officers. Another round of Senior AIS officers is likely in the first week of January.

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu seems trying to gear up the state administration in the new year. After making it clear to the reluctant government employees that they will have to move to New Capital Region Area (CRA) in Andhra Pradesh, he has taken up a mini reshuffle of All India Service Officers.

Naidu’s move has reportedly come in the wake of several AIS officers not willing to move to Vijayawada, or Guntur from Hyderabad immediately. In fact, this has been conveyed to the chief minister in his recently held review meeting after three months in State Secretariat in Hyderabad.

Within a day of coming to know the reluctance of the civil servants not willing to shift immediately, the chief minister had reportedly asked the State Chief Secretary I Y R Krishna Rao, to issue a circular notifying that all the Heads of the departments of the State Secretariat will have to shift and start functioning from June 1, 2016.

After making his intentions clear, now Naidu has taken up a mini reshuffling the junior AIS officials, and brining new faces. “Most of those in the reshuffle are junior AIS officials, who take charge as sub-collectors, joint collectors, heads of municipal corporations. The move was to bring in new faces, and also, to send a signal to those not planning to shift to New Capital Region Area, as per schedule released by the government will have to end up in loop line postings,” said an official from state department.

This is only a mini reshuffle, and there expected another reshuffle of AIS officials by the end of December, or in the first week of January. It would be a reshuffle of all senior heads of AIS officers.

It is learnt that the chief minister has taken a view after knowing that several senior AIS officials are opting to go to central services, and he wanted an all new team, except a few seniors who are closer to Naidu, right from his earlier stint in United Andhra Pradesh. “Thought it would be difficult to know right now about what has been going in chief minister’s mind. But, given the recent development taking place, we can not rule out the possibility of even a cabinet reshuffle before Sankranthi,”said a senior leader from TDP.