Senior IAS officer KAP Sinha has been appointed as the new chief secretary by the Punjab government, as cited in the official order.
Sinha will be succeeding Anurag Verma.
Sinha is a 1992-batch IAS officer of the Punjab cadre.
He was earlier in charge of special chief secretary, revenue, rehabilitation and disaster management, agriculture and farmers' welfare, horticulture, and soil and water conservation.
Verma, a 1993 batch IAS officer, will now preside over the same array of portfolios as additional chief secretary.
He had assumed the charge of chief secretary on July 1, 2023.
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