The General Administration Department in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday appointed IAS officers as ‘Secretary-in-charge’ for districts in the state.
Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Renu G Pillay has been appointed for Dhamtari, Principal Secretaries (PS) Manoj Kumar Pingua for Surguja, Dr. Maninder Kaur Dwivedi for Mahasamund and Gaurav Dwivedi for Bilaspur district.
Secretaries Rita Shandilya has been named for Bemetara, Sidharth Komal Pardeshi for Durg, Niranjan Das for Raigarh, Prasanna R. for Kabirdham, Anbalgan P. for Korba, Alarmel Mangai D. for Raipur, Dhananjay Devangan for Janjgir-Champa, S. Prakash for Korea and Topeshwar Verma for Balodabazar-Bhatapara district.
Similarly, N.N. Ekka (Mungeli), Ankit Anand (Balod), P. Dayanand (Surajpur), Dr. C. R. Prasanna (Jashpur), Dr. S. Bharathidasan (Rajnandgaon), Shammi Abidi (Kanker), Himshikhar Gupta (Gariaband) and Mohd. Kaiser Abdul Haque has been appointed as the Secretary in-charge of Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi.
Yashwant Kumar has been appointed for Bijapur, Neeraj Kumar Bansod (Sukma), Dr. Priyanka Shukla (Kondagaon), Kiran Kaushal (Dantewada), Dr. Tamboli Ayaz Fakir Bhai (Bastar), Avnish Kumar Sharan (Balrampur) and Kartikeya Goyal as Secretary in charge of Narayanpur.
The order stated that the Secretary-in-incharge will visit the district regularly and review the progress of the government's policies and development works being undertaken in the district. They will submit the tour report to the Chief Secretary.