Kottayam: As Dr Renuraj takes charge as Alappuzha district collector by early March, the administration of ten districts in the state will be in the hands of women. Interestingly, this is the first time that the state is having majority representation in the top brass of the administration. While the reservation for women in the Assembly stood at 33 per cent, 71.4 per cent of the collectors are women. 

Meanwhile, two out of the three nominees who bagged the Revenue Department's Best Collector award are women.They are Thiruvananthapuram Collector Navjot Khosa IAS and Palakkad collector Mrunmai Joshi IAS.

The other women collectors of Kerala are Haritha V Kumar (Thrissur), Divya S Iyer (Pathanamthitta), Afsana Parveen (Kollam), Sheeba George (Idukki), Dr PK Jayasree (Kottayam), Bhandari Swagat Ranveer Chand (Kasaragod) and Dr A Geetha (Wayanad).