Dr Vipin Itankar is new District Collector
   Date :19-Aug-2022

Dr Vipin Itankar 
 
 
Staff Reporter
State Government, on Thursday, issued orders for transfer of four Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers. R Vimala, District Collector, Nagpur has been transferred as Commissioner, Woman and Child Welfare. Dr Vipin Itankar, Collector, Nanded, shall be new Collector of Nagpur district. Dr Itankar will take charge at Nagpur on Friday.
R Vimala was posted as Collector of Nagpur district in July 2021. She has been transferred in only one year and one month. During her tenure, apart from handling various other responsibilities, she took initiative to ensure that the children orphaned during COVID-19 got the aid. She got IAS cadre in 2009, and has served in various capacities in her over 28 years of Government service so far. The new Collector of Nagpur district, Dr Vipin Vithoba Itankar hails
from Chandrapur district of Vidarbha region.
Dr Itankar studied in Vidya Niketan School there till Class XII and later completed MBBS at Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur. Later, he studied at Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. Son of Vithoba Itankar, who worked as Junior Manager in Chandrapur-based Maharashtra Elektrosmelt Limited; and Sharda, a housewife; Dr Vipin Itankar cleared Union Public Service Commission examination with flying colours in the fourth attempt.
He was Maharashtra topper in the examination. In 2014, he joined the IAS. In an order issued on Thursday and signed by Nitin Gadre, Additional Chief Secretary (Services), General Administration Department, Dr Itankar was asked to hand over the charge of Nanded Collector to another officer and take over as Nagpur Collector immediately.
The other two IAS officers transferred by Maharashtra Government on Thursday included Rahul Ranjan Mahiwal, Commissioner, Woman and Child Welfare, who has been posted as Metropolitan Commissioner, Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority. Rahul Kardile, Joint Commissioner, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, has been posted as Collector of Wardha district.