
Hari Chandana Dasari takes charge as Hyderabad district collector
The Hindu
Hari Chandana Dasari took charge as new Hyderabad district collector, after major bureaucratic reshuffle by Telangana government.
A 2010-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Hari Chandana Dasari assumed charge as the new Hyderabad district collector on Friday (June 13, 2025) afternoon. She took the charge from Anudeep Durishetty, a 2018-batch officer, who held the post since July 2023.
Her appointment comes as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle announced by the Telangana government on Thursday (June 12, 2025) evening, which saw the transfer of 36 IAS officers across the State.
Prior to her new role, Ms. Hari Chandana served as the Special Secretary of the Roads and Buildings department. She has also previously held the positions of district collector in Nalgonda and Narayanpet.

In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












