Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Radha Raturi gets six-month extension

Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], September 28 (ANI): The government has given a six-month extension to Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Radha Raturi from October 1 to March 31, 2025.

The Department of Personnel and Training, in a letter to Uttarakhand’s Additional Chief Secretary on Saturday, confirmed the extension of the state’s top administrative officer’s tenure till March 31, 2025.

Radha Raturi, one of the distinguished and first women Chief Secretary of the state, was due to retire on September 30, 2024.

“I am directed to refer to the proposal of Government of Uttarakhand on the above-mentioned subject and to convey the approval of Central government for extension of service of Radha S Raturi, Chief Secretary, Government of Uttarakhand for a further period of six months from 10/10/2024 to 31/03/2025 in relaxation of Rule 16 (1) of AIS (DCRB) rules, 1958 by invoking Rule 3 of AIS (CS-RM) rules, 1960,” said the letter signed by Bhupinder Pal Singh, an Under Secretary in the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) of the Government of India.