The Odisha government transferred 37 IAS officers, including 17 district collectors and some senior officials, ahead of the elections in the state. The reshuffle was influenced by the Election Commission of India's guidelines for poll-bound Odisha. The transfer also involved the chief administrator of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration, who was posted as the revenue divisional commissioner of central division. The government said the reshuffle was made to improve the administration and public service delivery.
The names of the 37 IAS officers who were transferred by the Odisha government are as follows:
- Temjenwapang Ao, Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Government, Public Enterprises Department
- Srikanta Prusty, Revenue Divisional Commissioner (Northern Division), Sambalpur
- Ranjan Kumar Das, Revenue Divisional Commissioner (Central Division), Cuttack
- Samarth Verma, Additional Chief Administrator, Shree Jagannath Temple Administration, Puri
- Ashish Thakare, Collector & District Magistrate, Mayurbhanj
- K. Sudarshan Chakravarthy, Director, Minor Minerals, Bhubaneswar
- Vineet Bharadwaj, Collector & District Magistrate, Cuttack
- Bijay Kumar Dash, Collector & District Magistrate, Puri
- Monisha Banerjee, Director, Social Welfare
- Chanchal Rana, Collector & District Magistrate, Khurda
- Swadha Dev Singh, Collector & Disrtrict Magistrate, Nayagarh
- Siddharth Shankar Swain, Commissioner, Cuttack Municipal Corporation
- Chakravarthi Singh Rathore, Joint Secretary to Government, Panchayati Raj Drinking Water Department
- Abdaal Akhtar, Collector & District Magistrate, Angul
- Lingraj Panda, Joint Secretary to Government, Cooperation Department
- Amrit Ruturaj, Labour Commissioner, Odisha, Bhubaneswar
- Ananya Das, Joint Secretary to Government, Handloom Textiles & Handicrafts Department
- Vishal Singh, Collector & District Magistrate, Keonjhar
- Jyoti Ranjan Pradhan, Collector & District Magistrate, Bargarh
- Arindam Dakua, Collector & District Magistrate, Bolangir
- Saroj Kumar Mishra, Collector & District Magistrate, Rayagada
- Anil Kumar Samal, Collector & District Magistrate, Jajpur
- Nikhil Pavan Kalyan, Collector & District Magistrate, Koraput
- Prem Chandra Chaudhary, Collector & District Magistrate, Kendrapada
- Subham Saxena, Collector & District Magistrate, Sambalpur
- Manish Agarwal, Collector & District Magistrate, Malkangiri
- Anvesha Reddy, Collector & District Magistrate, Gajapati
- Yeddula Vijay, Collector & District Magistrate, Jagatsinghpur
- Shashanka Sekhar Panda, Collector & District Magistrate, Nuapada
- Madhusmita Sahoo, Collector & District Magistrate, Kalahandi
- Himanshu Kumar Lal, Collector & District Magistrate, Ganjam
- Saroj Kumar Samal, Collector & District Magistrate, Dhenkanal
- Anil Kumar Samal, Collector & District Magistrate, Sundargarh
- Nikhil Pavan Kalyan, Collector & District Magistrate, Balasore
- Subham Saxena, Collector & District Magistrate, Kandhamal
- Manish Agarwal, Collector & District Magistrate, Deogarh
- Anvesha Reddy, Collector & District Magistrate, Boudh