Secretary General of Lok Sabha Mr. Utpal Kumar Singh has been granted one year further extension in his tenure. An official order was released by the Lok Sabha Speaker yesterday regarding this. A 1986-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Uttarakhand cadre, Mr. Singh was appointed as the Lok Sabha Secretary General on December 1, 2020. This is the second time when he has been granted extension. On November 30, 2021, he was granted two-year extension. .
A senior civil servant with 34 years of rich and varied administrative experience, Mr. Singh retired as chief secretary of Uttarakhand on July 31, 2020. He was then appointed as Secretary, Lok Sabha Secretariat on September 1, 2020. Then, he replaced Snehlata Shrivastav as the Lok Sabha Secretary General . He has served in the central and state governments in various capacities and held important positions which includes additional secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
