CMO Roster: Haryana govt decides duties for key officials

The Haryana government on Friday (15.03.2024) issued orders detailing the assignments of officials stationed in the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO). The order stipulates that the following officers will continue their duties within the CMO, each with specified responsibilities:

V Umashankar (IAS:1993:HY) will serve as:

1. Principal Secretary to the CM
2. Additional Chief Secretary to the Citizen Resources Information Department
3. Administrative Secretary Incharge of CM Window
4. Additional Chief Secretary, Information, Public Relations Languages, and Culture Department
5. Additional Chief Secretary, Foreign Cooperation Department

Amit Kumar Agrawal (IAS:2003:HY) will hold the positions of:

1. Additional Principal Secretary to the CM
2. Project Director, Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associates Programme
3. Managing Director, Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd.
4. Commissioner/Secretary, Development & Panchayat Department

Ashima Brar (IAS:2004:HY) is designated as:

1. Additional Principal Secretary to the CM
2. Director General/Secretary, Social Justice, Empowerment, Welfare of Scheduled Castes & Backward Classes, and Antyodaya (SEWA)

Additionally, the following officers will assume roles as OSDs:

• Virat (HCS:2011) will serve as OSD to the Principal Secretary to the CM
• Sudhanshu Gautam (HCS:2013) will act as OSD to the CM
• Heena Bindlish (HCS:2023) will function as OSD to the Chief Principal Secretary to the CM.

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