The State Government has promoted five 1986- batch IAS officers to the Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) rank.
The General Administration Department on Thursday issued a notification in this regard on approval of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
The officers who were elevated are Asit Kumar Tripathy, laxmi Narayan Gupta, Suresh Chandra Mohapatra, Sudashan Pal Thakur and G V Venugopala Sarma.
Sources said these officers were eagerly waiting for elevation as their batch mates in 20 other States have already got ACS ranks.
According to the decision, the promoted officers would continue in their present posts. While Tripathy is now named as ACS, Home, Gupta as ACS, MSME, Mohapatra as ACS, Forests and Environment, Sarma as ACS, Higher Education and Thakur would continue as Chief Administrator, KBK region.