Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary to the chief minister Shrikant Baldi (IAS:1985:HP) has been appointed as the Chief Secretary of Himachal Pradesh on Saturday. Baldi will hold his new charge from the date B K Agarwal (IAS:1985:HP) will relinquish his charge as Chief Secretary to join his new posting as Secretary to Lokpal in the rank of Secretary to the government of India.
Baldi will continue to hold the charge of housing department. He will also hold charge of tourism and civil aviation department in addition to his own duties. Badli will remain the chief secretary for a short tenure of less than four months as he will retire in December.
