IAS A Venu Prasad will be Additional Chief Secretary to Newly Formed Punjab Government’s CM
- Indian Masterminds Bureau
- Published on 12 Mar 2022, 11:10 pm IST
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- A Venu Prasad, a 1991-batch IAS officer, has been appointed as additional chief secretary to the Punjab chief minister-designate Bhagwant Mann.
1991-batch IAS officer A Venu Prasad will be new additional chief secretary to the CM of Punjab. Chief minister-designate Bhagwant Mann has appointed him. Mann will take the oath of office on March 16.
Prasad’s appointment, the first to be made by the new chief minister, has kicked off the process of administrative changes with the change of government in the state.
Prasad was additional chief secretary, taxation and parliamentary affairs, and also held the charge of the chairman-cum-managing director, Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited, in the previous Congress government.
Earlier, he served as the principal secretary, water resources, power and local government. He was the deputy commissioner of Faridkot from October 1999 to May 2003.
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