D Karthikeyan - TN IAS Officer Facing Allegations Of Corruption Transferred To Education Dept

IAS officer D Karthikeyan, who was appointed as the Secretary of Highways Department merely two days before, the State government, on Thursday, again appointed him as the Secretary of Higher Education Department.

D. Karthikeyan (Photo Credit CDMA)

Chennai: In a span of two days, the DMK-ruled government in Tamil Nadu swapped the posts of two senior IAS officers — D Karthikeyan and Dheeraj Kumar. Karthikeyan was posted as Secretary to the Highways and Minor Ports Department while Dheeraj Kumar was appointed as Higher Education Secretary. However, last night, in yet another bureaucratic reshuffle, the government interchanged their posts. 

Karthikeyan is now the new Higher Education Secretary and Dheeraj Kumar is appointed as Secretary to Highways and Minor Ports Department

The newly formed DMK government is sparing no stone unturned to make its governance appear clean and transparent.

The state reshuffled IAS officer Karthikeyan following external pressure to transfer him as he faces allegations of corruption in a Chennai Corporation tenders case.

Placing D. Karthikeyan IAS as Highways Secretary means the intention of Govt is to do maximum Corruption in Highways! It was under his tenure in Chennai Corporation that we exposed all the Corruption that happened. How will DVAC even file FIR against him ?

— Jayaram Venkatesan (@JayaramArappor) May 26, 2021

It was alleged by the contractors that there was corruption and lack of transparency in the process in Karthikeyan’s tenure in Chennai Corporation. Apparently, Chief Minister MK Stalin had written a letter demanding an investigation into the allegations of corruption in the allotment of tenders worth ₹ 740 crores when he was the leader of the opposition party.

Arappor Iyakkam, an NGO that had raised issues of corruption in the Chennai Corporation, had questioned the Chief Minister's selection of D. Karthikeyan for the crucial portfolio like Highways.