Newly-appointed Chief Secretary Rakesh Sharma, who is known to be a stickler for do-it-now dictum, has been allowed to continue as the heads of industrial development, civil aviation, finance, infrastructure development aside from chief investment commissioner and chairman of Revenue council till further order.
Principal secretary Radha Raturi said this on Thursday evening. This would doubtless make the new CS happy as he would be able to man a string of important departments for the short tenure of 90 days as the CS with the date of his retirement falling October 31, said an observer.
This aside, the state government has appointed relieving officers for three districts magistrates - Indudhar Baudai of Uttarkashi, HC Semwal of Haridwar and Ashok Kumar of Chamoli who are set to go for 117th Induction training programme at Administration Training Institute (ATI), Mysore from August 17 to September 25.