List of chief secretaries of Uttarakhand explained

Post:Chief Secretary
Body:Government of Uttarakhand
Incumbent:Radha Raturi
Flag:Flag of India.svg
Flagsize:110px
Insignia:File:Seal of Uttarakhand.svg
Insigniasize:150px
Incumbentsince:1 February 2024
Abbreviation:CS
Reports To:Governor and Chief Minister
Appointer:Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
Inaugural:Ajay Vikram Singh

The Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand is the senior-most civil servant in Uttarakhand. The secretary acts as the ex-officio Secretary to the Uttarakhand Council of Ministers, therefore is also known as Secretary to the Cabinet. The Chief secretary is the Head of the Uttarakhand Cabinet Secretariat Department. The functions include providing secretarial assistance to the cabinet, ensuring the implementation of decisions, acting as the policy coordination centre, serving as a data bank of information, organizing conferences. The Chief Secretary is an officer of Indian Administrative Service and is a member of the executive branch of the Government of Uttarakhand. The Chief Secretary ranks 23rd on the Indian order of precedence.[1]

Radha Raturi[2] [3] is the incumbent and first female Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand since 1 February 2024.

List of chief secretaries of Uttarakhand

No.NameTenureChief Minister
1Ajay Vikram Singh9 November 200031 August 2001Nityanand Swami
2Madhukar Gupta1 September 200131 August 2003Nityanand Swami
Bhagat Singh Koshyari
N. D. Tiwari
3Raghunandan Singh Tolia1 September 200330 September 2005N. D. Tiwari
4M. Ramachandran1 October 200531 October 2006
5Surjit Kishor Das1 November 200631 August 2008N. D. Tiwari
B. C. Khanduri
6Indu Kumar Pandey1 September 200830 November 2009B. C. Khanduri
Ramesh Pokhriyal
7Nrip Singh Napalchyal1 December 200931 August 2010
8Subhash Kumar1 September 201031 May 2012Ramesh Pokhriyal
B. C. Khanduri
Vijay Bahuguna
9Alok Kumar Jain1 June 201230 April 2013
(8)Subhash Kumar1 May 201330 September 2014Vijay Bahuguna
Harish Rawat
10N. Ravishankar1 October 201431 July 2015
11Rakesh Sharma1 August 201531 October 2015
12Shatrughna Singh1 November 201530 November 2016
13S. Ramaswamy1 December 201624 October 2017Harish Rawat
Trivendra Singh Rawat
14Utpal Kumar Singh25 October 201731 July 2020
15Om Prakash Singh1 August 20206 July 2021Trivendra Singh Rawat
Tirath Singh Rawat
16Sukhbir Singh Sandhu7 July 202131 January 2024Pushkar Singh Dhami
17Radha Raturi1 February 2024Incumbent

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: What are the Roles and Functions of Chief Secretary of a State?. Dnyanesh. Kumar. October 5, 2011.
  2. https://www.abplive.com/states/up-uk/uttarakhand-radha-raturi-became-the-first-woman-chief-secretary-2598839
  3. https://www.jagran.com/uttarakhand/dehradun-city-radha-raturi-to-be-first-woman-chief-secretary-of-uttarakhand-know-about-female-ias-officer-23642036.html