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.
No. | Name | Tenure | Chief Minister | ||
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1 | Ajay Vikram Singh | 9 November 2000 | 31 August 2001 | Nityanand Swami | |
2 | Madhukar Gupta | 1 September 2001 | 31 August 2003 | Nityanand Swami | |
Bhagat Singh Koshyari | |||||
N. D. Tiwari | |||||
3 | Raghunandan Singh Tolia | 1 September 2003 | 30 September 2005 | N. D. Tiwari | |
4 | M. Ramachandran | 1 October 2005 | 31 October 2006 | ||
5 | Surjit Kishor Das | 1 November 2006 | 31 August 2008 | N. D. Tiwari | |
B. C. Khanduri | |||||
6 | Indu Kumar Pandey | 1 September 2008 | 30 November 2009 | B. C. Khanduri | |
Ramesh Pokhriyal | |||||
7 | Nrip Singh Napalchyal | 1 December 2009 | 31 August 2010 | ||
8 | Subhash Kumar | 1 September 2010 | 31 May 2012 | Ramesh Pokhriyal | |
B. C. Khanduri | |||||
Vijay Bahuguna | |||||
9 | Alok Kumar Jain | 1 June 2012 | 30 April 2013 | ||
(8) | Subhash Kumar | 1 May 2013 | 30 September 2014 | Vijay Bahuguna | |
Harish Rawat | |||||
10 | N. Ravishankar | 1 October 2014 | 31 July 2015 | ||
11 | Rakesh Sharma | 1 August 2015 | 31 October 2015 | ||
12 | Shatrughna Singh | 1 November 2015 | 30 November 2016 | ||
13 | S. Ramaswamy | 1 December 2016 | 24 October 2017 | Harish Rawat | |
Trivendra Singh Rawat | |||||
14 | Utpal Kumar Singh | 25 October 2017 | 31 July 2020 | ||
15 | Om Prakash Singh | 1 August 2020 | 6 July 2021 | Trivendra Singh Rawat | |
Tirath Singh Rawat | |||||
16 | Sukhbir Singh Sandhu | 7 July 2021 | 31 January 2024 | Pushkar Singh Dhami | |
17 | Radha Raturi | 1 February 2024 | Incumbent |