Two Odisha-cadre IAS officers holding various charges at the Centre have been elevated to the Union Secretary rank.
They are GV Venugopala Sarma of the 1986 batch and 1985-batch officer GC Murmu.
Besides, Odisha-cadre IAS officers Manoj Ahuja, Sanjeev Chopra, G Srinivas, Arti Ahuja and Nitin Chandra have been promoted as Additional Secretaries at the Centre.
Apart from this, IAS officers belonging to Odisha, Chhabilendra Roul (1985-batch officer of Punjab cadre), Guru Prasad Mohapatra (1986-batch officer of Gujarat cadre) and Manoj Parida (1986-batch officer of Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory- AGMU cadre) have also got the Union Secretary rank.