Senior IAS Officer Tripurari Sharan Named New Bihar Chief Secretary Senior IAS Officer Tripurari Sharan Named New Bihar Chief Secretary Tripurari Sharan succeeded Arun Kumar Singh who died of COVID-19 the previous day.
A 1985 batch IAS officer, Tripurari Sharan will retire from service on June 30 this year.
Patna:
Senior IAS officer Tripurari Sharan was on Saturday named as the new Chief Secretary of Bihar, but his tenure will be for a brief period of two months only, according to a government notification.
Mr Sharan succeeded Arun Kumar Singh who died of COVID-19 the previous day.
A 1985 batch IAS officer, Sharan will retire from service on June 30 this year.
Source:
PTI
Patna: Senior IAS officer Tripurari Sharan was on Saturday named as the new Chief Secretary of Bihar, but his tenure will be for a brief period of two months only, according to a government notification. Sharan succeeded Arun Kumar Singh who died of COVID the previous day.
A 1985 batch IAS officer, Sharan will retire from service on June 30 this year. He was currently holding the responsibility of Chairman of Revenue Council. According to the notification issued by the General Administration department, Sanjeev Kumar Sinha (1986 batch) will replace Sharan in Revenue Council. The 1985 batch IAS officer Arun Kumar Singh had died of COVID in a private hospital here Friday.
PATNA: The state health department additional secretary, Ravi Shankar Choudhary, died of Covid-19 complications on Friday. He was among the 54 fatalities officially reported even as Bihar created yet anotherrecord with 12,672 people testing positive in a day out of 1,0,8147 samples tested.
Choudhary, who had also served as Arwal DM, breathed his last at AIIMS-Patna. CM Nitish Kumar and healthminister Mangal Pandey expressed deep condolence over his death. Nitish said Choudhary’s demise was a big loss to the administration and society and prayed for the departed soul and his family. Pandey also prayed for the departed soul and called his death a big loss for the department.