V Srinivas, a 1989 batch IAS officer, who is serving as Secretary in Department of Administrative Reforms, Public Grievances and Pensions at centre, has been repatriated to home cadre Rajasthan. He is all set to replace Rajasthan chief secretary Sudhansh Pant, who is going back to centre to serve as secretary in the department of social justice and empowerment.
The development followed meeting of V Srinivas with Rajasthan chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on his visit to New Delhi on Thursday. The BuckStopper was to first to indicate the strong contention of V Srinivas as the next chief secretary. He is due to retire in September 2026.
Who is V Srinivas?
A native of Andhra Pradesh, V Srinivas is second in the seniority after Subodh Agrawal, who is retiring next month. He is considered an upright and balanced officer with strong grounding in policy making and finance. He had been private secretary to Jaswant Singh, who had served as external affairs minister and finance minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
In his current assignment, Srinivas created history by getting elected as the President of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), a 100 years old prestigious global organisation, for the 2025–2028 term. He is the first Indian officer to hold the IIAS presidency.
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