: Chief Secretary of the Puducherry government Manoj Kumar Parida has been promoted to the rank of Secretary in the union goverment.
His name was cleared along with another IAS officer of the 1986 batch at a recent meeting of the Home Ministry's Department Promotion Committee, a release from the Directorate of Information and Publicity here said.
Parida served in various capacities in the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Odisha and New Delhi.
He was the Joint Secretary in the Food and Consumer Affairs Ministrys before his posting as Chief Secretary to Puducherry government in June 2015, the release added.
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