CHANDIGARH: Within a week of the appointment of former chief secretary D S Dhesi as
chief principal secretary to chief minister, the Haryana government on Monday elevated V Umashankar as principal secretary to chief minister.
Umashankar was deputy principal secretary. Now, Amit Aggarwal has been appointed as deputy principal secretary to chief minister.
There has been other major changes in chief minister’s office. Yogender Chaudahry, a 1989 batch IRS officer and addition principal secretary to CM, has been appointed as advisor in the CM’s resource mobilisation cell. He will continue to hold charge of sports and youth welfare department and foreign cooperation department.
These were carried out during a major bureaucratic shuffle which saw nearly 37 officers getting new postings.
Other significant postings included that of Dheera Khandelwal as additional chief secretary of information and public relations department and appointment of Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor, a senior IPS officer, as principal secretary and financial commission in the transport department.
Notably, Kapoor’s appointment has come after the Haryana government had decided to post both the HPS officers and IFS state forest services officers as the district transport officers to check pilferage of tax as well as wrongs in the transport department.
Meanwhile, Shashank Anand, a 2006 batch IPS officer, is the latest entry to no cadre post. Anand has been appointed as the managing director of Uttari Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam after the new posting of Kapoor. Till now, Kapoor had been holding the charge of MD of electricity distribution companies.