Bihar: Pratyaya Amrit promoted to chief secretary rank

PATNA: State’s principal secretary (health) Pratyaya Amrit was on Wednesday promoted to the chief secretary rank. He was promoted to a ‘cadre post’ which fell vacant on April 30 after the untimely death of former chief secretary Arun Kumar Singh. The state has six cadre posts in the rank of chief secretary.
As per the general administration department notofication on Wednesday, Pratyaya, a 1991-batch Bihar cadre IAS officer, has now been promoted in the fixed payscale of Rs 2,25,000 (chief secretary rank) and his post has been renamed as ‘additional chief secretary’ (health). He has also been asked to hold the additional charge of the additional chief secretary (disaster management department).
Pratyaya was brought to the health department in July, 2020 to fight against the spread of Vovid-19. Before Pratyaya, two principal secretary rank officers in the health department were changed within a few months.
Before being shifted to health department, Pratyaya was heading the energy department where he played a key role in providing power supply to each household across the state under the Har Ghar Bijli Lagataar, one of the seven components of CM Nitish Kumar’s Saat Nischay programme.