Coimbatore: IAS officer S Nagarajan and IPS officer S Davidson Devasirvatham took charge as the district collector and the city police commissioner, respectively, on Thursday.
The new collector, a 2005-cadre IAS officer, had secured first rank in the civil services exam. Nagarajan had completed BE (EEE) from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science at Pilani in Rajasthan and postgraduate from Harvard University. He was posted in Erode as a trainee collector first. He has served as sub-collector in Krishnagiri, additional collector in Sivaganga and collector in Vellore, Kanyakumari, Theni and Madurai districts. Before the latest appointment, he was serving as director of the entrepreneurship development and innovation institute.
The new city police commissioner is a 1995-cadre IPS officer and he was moved to the city from the Tamil Nadu police academy where he was serving as the additional director general of police (ADGP). He had in the past served as ADGP (technical services), Madurai city police commissioner and inspector general of police (west zone). He had also worked in Coimbatore as deputy commissioner (law and order) and assistant superintendent of police.TNN