Additional Chief Secretary Industry and Infrastructure Development Anup Chandra Pandey will be the next Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh. The 1984 batch officer, who will retire in August, 2019, succeeds Rajiv Kumar, who will attain superannuation on June 30.
Formal orders for Pandey’s appointment as Chief Secretary were issued on Wednesday and will come into effect on June 30.
There were over a dozen IAS officers who were in the race for the coveted post. Sources said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was himself keen on Pandey’s appointment. Pandey has spent a long time in UP, working on various levels and has a clean image and impeccable record. He was Director of Information Department during the regime of Kalyan Singh in 1999 and later served as Private Secretary to Uma Bharti, who was Union Minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government.
Pandey is credited for successful implementation of three flagship programmes of the Yogi Government.