The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday appointed senior IAS officer Neerabh Kumar Prasad (IAS:1987:AP) as the new Chief Secretary of the state. He replaces incumbent Chief Secretary Dr K S Jawahar Reddy (IAS:1990:AP), who went on medical leave on Thursday after meeting Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu, who is set to take over as the next chief minister on June 12. Reddy is due to retire by the end of this month.
Before being appointed to the top bureaucratic post, Prasad was serving as Special Chief Secretary of the Environment, Forest, Science and Technology Department.
Prasad was also the frontrunner for the post of Chief Secretary in 2019, but the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government bypassed him and three other senior IAS officers and appointed K S Jawahar Reddy.
