List Of Chief Secretaries In India (July 2025)

Last Updated: 14 July 2025

Before we get into the List of Chief Secretaries in India, Let us have a quick Intro about the Chief Secretaries in India.

The Chief Secretary is the Highest-Ranking Executive Official and Civil Servant in the Government of an Indian state.

The Chief Secretary is the Ex-Officio leader of the State Civil Services Board, the State Secretariat, the State Cadre Indian Administrative Service, and all Civil Services as per the State’s rules of Business.

Chief Secretaries also acts as the Principal Advisor to the Chief Minister on all matters of State Administration.

The Chief Secretary is the senior-most cadre post in the state administration, ranking 23rd on the Indian order of precedence.

He or She is called Secretary to the Cabinet and has the status of this post is equal to that of a Secretary to the Government of India.

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State Secreatariat At A Glance

Sl No.	Header	Answer
1	Status	Head of Permanent Executive
2	Member Of	1) State Civil Services Board 2) Committee of Secretaries of the State on Administration 3) State Crisis Management Committee 4) Senior Selection Board
3	Reports To	1) Governor of the State 2) Chief Minister of the State 3) State Cabinet 4) State Legislative Assembly
4	Seat	State Secretariat
6	Appointer	Appointments Committee of the Cabinet [The Chief Secretary is usually the senior most IAS officer of the senior most batch in the state. The appointee for the office is approved by state Chief Minister, based on appointee’s ability and strong confidence with him or her]
6	Term Length	No fixed tenure is imposed on the office but term can be extended
7	Succession	23rd (Read More)
8	Salary	₹225,000 (US$2,700) monthly

List of Chief Secretaries In India

Sl No.	State	Capital	Chief Secretary	Position	Batch
1	Andhra Pradesh	Amaravati	K. Vijayanand,	IAS	1992
2	Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar	Manish Kumar Gupta	IAS	1991
3	Assam	Dispur	Ravi Kota	IAS	1993
4	Bihar	Patna	Amrit Lal Meena	IAS	1989
5	Chhattisgarh	Raipur	Amitabh Jain	IAS	1989
6	Goa	Panaji	V. Candavelou	IAS	1997
7	Gujarat	Gandhinagar	Pankaj Joshi	IAS	1989
8	Haryana	Chandigarh	Anurag Rastogi	IAS	1990
9	Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Prabodh Saxena	IAS	1990
10	Jharkhand	Ranchi	Alka Tiwari	IAS	1988
11	Karnataka	Bengaluru	Shalini Rajneesh	IAS	1989
12	Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	A. Jayathilak	IAS	1991
13	Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Anurag Jain	IAS	1989
14	Maharashtra	Mumbai	Rajesh Kumar	IAS	1988
15	Manipur	Imphal	Prashant Kumar Singh	IAS	1993
16	Meghalaya	Shillong	Donald Philips Wahlang	IAS	1993
17	Mizoram	Aizawl	Khilli Ram Meena	IAS	1993
18	Nagaland	Kohima	J. Alam	IAS	1991
19	Odisha	Bhubaneswar	Manoj Ahuja	IAS	1990
20	Punjab	Chandigarh	K. A. Prasad Sinha	IAS	1992
21	Rajasthan	Jaipur	Sudhansh Pant	IAS	1991
22	Sikkim	Gangtok	Ravindra Telang	IAS	1995
23	Tamil Nadu	Chennai	N. Muruganandam	IAS	1991
24	Telangana	Hyderabad	K. Ram Krishna Rao	IAS	1991
25	Tripura	Agartala	Jitendra Kumar Sinha	IAS	1996
26	Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Manoj Kumar Singh	IAS	1988
27	Uttarakhand	Dehradun	Anand Bardhan	IAS	1992
28	West Bengal	Kolkata	Manoj Pant	IAS	1991

List Of Chief Secretaries To Union Territories

Sl No.	Union Territory	Capital	Chief Secretary/Advisor to Administrator	Position	Batch
1	Andaman & Nicobar Islands	Port Blair	Chandra Bhushan Kumar	IAS	1995
2	Chandigarh	Chandigarh	Rajeev Verma	IAS	1992
3	Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu	Daman	Amit Singla	IAS	2003
4	Delhi	New Delhi	Dharmendra	IAS	1989
5	Jammu & Kashmir	Srinagar(May–Oct) and Jammu(Nov–Apr)	Atal Dulloo	IAS	1988
6	Ladakh	Leh	Pawan Kotwal	IAS	1994
7	Lakshadweep	Kavaratti	S. B. Deepak Kumar	IAS	2005
8	Puducherry	Pondicherry	Sharat Chauhan	IAS	1994