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.
The Telangana government has explored options for the appointment of a new Chief Secretary after the Department of Personnel and Training relieved the incumbent Somesh Kumar from the State with immediate effect.
The DoPT, in its communication, addressed to the State Chief Secretary on Tuesday evening, quoted the High Court’s judgment setting aside and quashing the Central Administrative Tribunal’s order on Mr. Somesh Kumar’s posting in Telangana.
