IndiGlobal Bureau
Senior IAS officer of 1989 batch and Special Chief Secretary of Forest and Environment has become the new Chief Secretary of Telangana Government. She will hold office till April 2025. There were three other names doing the rounds that of Special Chief Secretaries K Ramakrishna Rao (Finance), Rajat Kumar (Irrigation), Arvind Kumar (MAUD).
The outgoing CS Somesh Kumar faced a huge set back in the High Court on Tuesday which issued a verdict that he should go to Andhra Pradesh.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) of the Ministry of Personnel, a portfolio held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday relieved Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar from the Telangana cadre and directed him to join the Andhra Pradesh cadre by January 12.
The DoPT’s order came hours after the Telangana High Court set aside and quashed the order by Hyderabad branch of Central Administrative Tribunal’s (CAT) allocating Somesh Kumar to the Telangana cadre.
After the High Court order, Somesh Kumar called on Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at Pragathi Bhavan where the two held a discussion. In all likelihood, Somesh Kumar may challenge the HC order in the Supreme Court.
However, if Somesh Kumar opts to resign, in case he doesn’t get a favourable judgement from the Supreme Court, he might be appointed as an advisor or be given some important assignment by the State government.
Somesh Kumar, a 1989 batch IAS officer and the fifth Chief Secretary of Telangana, took charge as CS on December 31, 2019. He is the longest- serving CS in the history of the State.
