Bengaluru: The State Government has appointed 1986-batch IAS Officer Vandita Sharma as the new Chief Secretary. She will replace P. Ravi Kumar who will retire from his post on May 31.
Vandita Sharma’s name was picked by the Basavaraj Bommai Government from a pool of nine probables serving as Additional Chief Secretaries: I.S.N. Prasad (Finance) (who is Vandita’s husband), Rajneesh Goel (Home), E.V. Ramana Reddy (Industries), Rakesh Singh (Water Resources), Shalini Rajneesh (Planning), G. Kumar Naik (Power), Gaurav Gupta (IDD) and Ajay Seth (Central deputation).
