Chandigarh Home Secretary to be relieved on August 31

Chandigarh, August 26

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After completion of his inter-cadre deputation period, Arun Kumar Gupta, Principal Secretary (Home), UT, will be relieved on August 31.

The three-year deputation period of the officer had ended in May, but due to a surge in Covid cases, the UT Administration had sought an extension in service for three months for Gupta, a Haryana-cadre IAS officer of the 1992 batch. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet had extended the deputation of Gupta for three months beyond May 31.

However, the Central Government is still to approve the name for the post of the UT Home Secretary.

The Haryana Government had earlier sent a panel of three IAS officers to succeed Gupta. The panel included the names of Nitin Kumar Yadav (2000 batch), Ravi Pankaj Agarwal (2000 batch) and Vinay Singh (2003 batch). — TNS