Bengaluru: With State Chief Secretary (CS) Subha Chandra Khuntia set to retire by the end of this month, speculation on his successor is already in the air in the corridors of power in the State. Senior IAS officers in the rank of Additional Chief Secretary K. Ratna Prabha and T.M. Vijaya Bhaskar, who is serving as the Development Commissioner, have emerged as the front runners to head the State’s bureaucracy.
Ratna Prabha, a 1981 batch Dalit officer, who had missed the importunity on the previous occasion as Chief Minister Siddharamaiah had preferred Khuntia, is almost certain to make it this time.
