Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government on Tuesday promoted 7 IAS officers in the state. Two officers from the 1996-batch have been promoted to principal secretary rank and five officers from the 2005-batch have been promoted to secretary rank.
According to the notification, Chief electoral officer H R Srinivasan and BSEB Chairman Anand Kishore have been promoted to principal secretary rank. However, Srinivasan will hold his post of chief electoral officer.
Special secretary in information and technology department Manish Kumar, Patna DM Kumar Ravi, Managing director of Bihar State SC/ST Cooperative Development Divesh Sehra, Commissioner (self-employment) Balamurugan D, and Special secretary, land and reforms department Radheshyam Shah have been promoted to the secretary rank.
The promotions of the officer would be effective from January 1, 2021.
