UP Chief Secretary gets six months extension in service

Anup Chandra Pandey (IAS:1984:UP), Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh , has been given a six months extension in service by the Union government. Mr Pandey was to retire on February 28 but would now continue to be the Chief Secretary till August 31, 2019.

The 1984-batch officer was handpicked by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to head the state bureaucracy on June 28, 2018, two days before the incumbent Rajive Kumar was to retire.