Senior IAS officer Durga Shankar Mishra next UP Chief Secretary

New Delhi, December 29

The government today issued an order to repatriate senior IAS officer and Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra to his parent cadre Uttar Pradesh, as he has been been proposed to be appointed as the Chief Secretary of the state. Mishra, a 1984-batch IAS officer, was due to superannuate on December 31.

In an order issued by the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), it is said, “The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved repatriation of Mishra to his cadre for his proposed appointment as UP Chief Secretary.”

At present, Rajendra Kumar Tiwari, 1985-batch IAS officer, is the UP Chief Secretary. Tiwari is due to retire in February 2023. The DoPT had in an order on December 27 named Manoj Joshi as Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary in place of Mishra. Joshi, a 1989-batch Kerala-cadre IAS officer, has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. — TNS