As many as 7 IAS officers are serving as chief secretary from the 1991 batch. This clearly shows the dominance of this batch. In Bihar, the chief secretary designate Pratyaya Amrit, who takes over as chief secretary next month, is also from 1991 batch.
Sudhansh Pant (Rajasthan), Manish Kumar Gupta (Arunachal Pradesh), A Jayathilak (Kerala), Sentitlyanger Imchen (Nagaland), N Muruganandam (Tamil Nadu), K Ramakrishna Rao (Telangana) and Manoj Pant (West Bengal) are occupying the top post in their respective states.
Following the 1991 batch closely is the 1989 batch, which has six officers currently serving as chief secretaries. Amitabh Jain (Chhattisgarh), Pankaj Joshi (Gujarat), Shalini Rajneesh (Karnataka), Anurag Jain (Madhya Pradesh) and Shashi Prakash Goyal (Uttar Pradesh). Amrit Lal Meena, who is also from 1989 batch is retiring at the end of this month.
The 1993 batch comes third when it comes to having seving chief secretaries from batch. There are four officers from this batch who are occupying the top post. Ravi Kota (Assam), Prashant Kumar Singh (Manipur), Donald Philips Wahlang (Meghalaya) and Khilli Ram Meena (Mizoram).
The 1992 and 1990 batches have three officers each serving as chief secretary while two officers each from 1988 and 1994 batches are serving as chief secretary.
The 8 union territories have 2 chief secretaries from 1994 batch while one each from 1988, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2003 and 2005 batches.
Vivek Shukla is a management graduate who has worked in corporate worked for 20 years and is now pursuing his passion — news.
