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Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) serviceman V. Srinivas took complaint arsenic the caller Chief Secretary of Rajasthan successful Jaipur connected Monday (November 17, 2025), replacing Sudhansh Pant, who has been shifted to the Centre connected deputation. Mr. Srinivas, a 1989-batch officer, had besides spent the past 7 years connected deputation successful New Delhi.
Along with the Chief Secretary’s post, Mr. Srinivas volition clasp the further complaint of president of the Rajasthan State Mines and Minerals Limited and the State’s Principal Resident Commissioner successful New Delhi. He volition service till September 2026, erstwhile helium is scheduled to retire.
Mr. Srinivas was earlier serving arsenic the Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, successful the Union government. He has superseded 1 IAS serviceman successful the seniority list, arsenic helium is the 2nd astir elder serviceman successful the Rajasthan cadre aft Subodh Agarwal of the 1988 batch.
Mr. Pant’s abrupt departure from the State successful the mediate of his tenure arsenic the Chief Secretary has been viewed arsenic an lawsuit of the Centre exercising power implicit cardinal bureaucratic appointments. A large administrative reshuffle is apt to travel Mr. Srinivas’s appointment, with changes expected successful the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) and successful immoderate cardinal departments.
Mr. Srinivas said aft assuming bureau astatine the State Secretariat present that helium would make a roadmap for implementing the State government’s imaginativeness of “Viksit Rajasthan-2047” and attracting investments to cardinal sectors. “My superior nonsubjective volition beryllium to found a amended coordination among each departments and prosecute the precedence assemblage programmes with speedy and effectual implementation of the government’s plans,” helium said.
The caller Chief Secretary said the State had witnessed important innovations successful agriculture, watershed development, wellness attraction and societal security, and respective of these models had been adopted astatine the Centre arsenic well. The implementation of MoUs signed during the Rising Rajasthan Global Investment Summit-2024 would besides beryllium expedited, helium added.
A seasoned bureaucrat, Mr. Srinivas has held respective cardinal positions successful the State and astatine the Centre. He worked arsenic backstage caput to past External Affairs and Finance Minister Jaswant Singh during the NDA authorities and aboriginal served successful Washington, D.C., arsenic the method adjunct to India’s Executive Director astatine the International Monetary Fund.
