The State Government on Thursday promoted two IAS officers of Jharkhand Cadre to Additional Chief Secretary ranks. Principal Secretary of Forest, Environment and Climate Change department Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi has been made Additional Chief Secretary of the department from the date of assuming charge.
Secondly, Principal Secretary of Water Resources Department Sukhdeo Singh has been promoted to the rank of Additional CS with effect from September 1, 2017. Singh will hold the charge of Additional CS Water Resources department till further orders. Both the IAS officers are of 1987 batch. The promotions came after two cadre posts of the Additional CS rank became vacant in the wake of former Additional CS Rural Development department of State government NN Sinha going on Central deputation and Director General of SKIPA Mridula Sinha retired from service on Thursday. Jharkhand has four cadre posts and four ex-cadre posts of CS rank out of which one is vacant.