Shanti Kumari is new Chief Secretary of Telangana
The Hindu
The Telangana Government issued orders for the appointment of Shanti Kumari as Chief Secretary of the State a day after the DoPT relieved Somesh Kumar from the post
Senior IAS officer A. Shanti Kumari has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Telangana. The State Government has issued orders appointing her as the Chief Secretary after Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao gave his consent for her appointment to the top bureaucratic post in the State. The order was given a day after the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) relieved Somesh Kumar from the post.
A 1989 batch officer, Ms. Shanti Kumari will be the first woman to take up the top post in the new State. A post-graduate in Marine Biology, Ms. Shanti Kumari has pursued MBA in the US and also worked in the United Nations programmes for two years. She has been working in the areas of poverty alleviation, education, health, skill development and forest departments in the past three decades of her service.
She worked as a principal secretary in the Chief Minister’s Office and as special secretary in the TS-iPASS. She is currently holding the post of special chief secretary in Forest department prior to being appointed as Chief Secretary. The new Chief Secretary called on the Chief Minister at Pragati Bhavan and thanked him for reposing confidence in her and entrusting her the Chief Secretary’s post.
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