The Madhya Pradesh government has appointed 1988 batch senior IAS officer Veera Rana as the new Chief Secretary (CS), becoming only the second woman to hold the top post in the state’s bureaucracy. Ms. Rana has also been given the additional charge of the MP Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) as its chairperson.
She was serving as acting chief secretary after the retirement of incumbent Iqbal S Bains. IAS officer Nirmala Buch was the first woman chief secretary of Madhya Pradesh and she served in the top post in the early 1990s.
The government also appointed 1988 batch IAS officer Sanjay Bandopadhyay as chairman of the MP Employees Selection Board (earlier known as Vyapam).
