Somesh Kumar, Ajay Misra in race for Chief Secretary post

Update: 2019-12-31 01:11 IST

Hyderabad: Senior bureaucrat and Special Chief Secretary to Revenue (Commercial Taxes, Excise) Somesh Kumar is likely to be the new Chief Secretary of Telangana.

The present Chief Secretary S K Joshi will lay down office on Tuesday on attaining superannuation.

It is learnt that another senior official and Special Chief Secretary Ajay Misra is also a frontrunner for the post of the chief secretary.

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Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will finalise the name of the new chief secretary by Tuesday afternoon. This could be followed by a minor reshuffle of the IAS officials.

Meanwhile, GAD (Political) department is making elaborate arrangements to give farewell to the outgoing chief secretary at the temporary Secretariat BRKR Bhavan.

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