Odisha: Vishal Dev gets addl. charge of PS, D/o Electronics and Information Technology

Mr. Vishal Dev (IAS:1996:OR), Principal Secretary in the Finance Department with additional charges of Principal Secretary, Energy and the Chairman of GRIDCO, has been given additional charge of Principal Secretary in the Department of Electronics and Information Technology following the resignation of Manoj Kumar Mishra (IRTS:2000).

Mishra was appointed to the post on a contractual basis by the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government after he resigned from the Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) in 2022. He resigned from his position on June 4, the day the Odisha assembly election results were announced.