Patna: The Bihar government has issued promotion orders for 55 IAS officers of the state cadre, elevating them to different pay levels and corresponding ranks. The promotions will come into effect from January 1, 2027.
The promotions cover officers from the 1997, 2002, 2011, 2014 and 2018 batches. They include elevations to the Additional Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary, Secretary, Special Secretary and Additional Secretary ranks.
The list of officers promoted is as follows:
Additional Chief Secretary Rank – 1997 Batch (Apex Pay Scale, Pay Level 17)
- Santosh Kumar Mall, Principal Secretary, Disaster Management Department
- Pankaj Kumar, Principal Secretary, Home Department
Principal Secretary Rank – 2002 Batch (Higher Administrative Grade, Pay Level 15)
- Pankaj Kumar Pal, Secretary, Road Construction Department
Secretary Rank – 2011 Batch (Pay Level 14)
- Himanshu Sharma, Special Secretary, Department of Science, Technology and Technical Education
- Shirshat Kapil Ashok, Managing Director, Bihar State Milk Co-operative Federation Ltd. (COMFED)
- Dr Nilesh Ramchandra Deore, Special Secretary, Civil Aviation Department
- Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Special Secretary, Rural Development Department
- Naresh Jha, Settlement Officer, Katihar
- Brajesh Kumar, Settlement Officer, Madhepura
- Naveen Kumar, Special Secretary, Prohibition, Excise and Registration Department
- Udayan Mishra, Special Secretary, Tourism Department
Special Secretary Rank – 2014 Batch (Selection Grade, Pay Level 13)
- Udita Singh, District Magistrate, Nalanda
- Roshan Kushwaha, District Magistrate, Samastipur
- Shashank Sudhakar, District Magistrate, Gayaji
- Aditya Prakash, Additional Secretary, Panchayati Raj Department
- Amit Kumar Pandey, Additional Secretary, Revenue and Land Reforms Department, with additional charge of Additional Secretary, Agriculture Department
- Yashpal Meena, Municipal Commissioner, Patna Municipal Corporation
- Saurabh Jorwal, Managing Director, SBPDCL
- Shyam Bihari Meena, Bihar State Planning Board
- Sanjay Kumar, Additional Secretary, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Welfare Department
- Sangita Singh, Additional Secretary, Minor Water Resources Department
- Mukesh Kumar Singh, Director, Provident Fund Directorate
- Gautam Paswan, Mission Director, Bihar Mahadalit Vikas Mission
- Ranjit Kumar, Additional Secretary, Youth, Employment and Skill Development Department
- Kalpana Kumari, Additional Secretary, Agriculture Department
- Praveen Kumar, Additional Secretary, Transport Department
- Mrityunjay Kumar, Chief General Manager, Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation
- Dr Nandlal Arya, Settlement Officer, Buxar
- Sujit Kumar, Settlement Officer, Siwan
- Rajnish Kumar, Inspector General, Jail and Reform Services
- Rakesh Ranjan, General Manager, BELTRON
- Sanjay Kumar, Additional Secretary, General Administration Department
- Shambhu Sharan, Additional Secretary, Health Department
- Rajesh Kumar Singh, Additional Secretary, Building Construction Department
- Rajesh Kumar, Additional Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs Department
- Sunil Kumar, Director, Audit, Finance Department
- Madhav Kumar Singh, Additional Chief Electoral Officer
- Ahmed Mahmood, Additional Secretary, Science, Technology and Technical Education Department
- Vinayak Mishra, Director, Midday Meal, Education Department
- Suman Kumar, Additional Secretary, Governor’s Secretariat
- Kumar Mangalam, Additional Secretary, Rural Affairs Department
- Warish Khan, Secretary, Bihar State Disaster Management Authority
- Akhilesh Kumar Singh, Additional Secretary, Agriculture Department
- Rajesh Bharti, Labour Commissioner, Migrant Workers Welfare Department
- Atul Kumar Verma, Administrator, Bihar State Road Transport Corporation
Additional Secretary Rank – 2018 Batch (Junior Administrative Grade, Pay Level 12)
- Ashutosh Dwivedi, District Magistrate, Katihar
- Pratibha Rani, District Magistrate, Sheohar
- Vaibhava Srivastava, District Magistrate, Saran (Chapra)
- Vinod Duhan, District Magistrate, Araria
- Abhishek Ranjan, District Magistrate, Madhepura
- Shekhar Anand, District Magistrate, Shekhpura
- Amrisha Bains, District Magistrate, Arwal
- Shahila, District Magistrate, Buxar
- Nikhil Dhanraj Nippanikar, District Magistrate, Munger
- Nitin Kumar Singh, Director, Secondary Education
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