Ballari: 2017 batch IAS officer Nandini KR, who was UPSC topper in 2016 has now been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ballari Zilla Panchayat.
Earlier she was serving in Tiptur as the Assistant Commissioner.
In a major rejig to the state administrative machinery, on Tuesday, the state government transferred 13 IAS officials. Many assistant commissioners were promoted and transferred including Nandini.
Nandini originally hails from Kembodi village in Kolar.
She studied in Kannada medium at the government-aided Thimmaiah Vidyalaya at Kolar. She moved to Moodabidri for her PU education and joined Alva’s College.
Later, she joined M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology in Bengaluru for BE in Civil engineering and was a gold medallist from the Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi.