Chief Secretary ( India ) - Wikipedia Chief Secretary ( India ) Chief Secretary of the State Reports to Governor of the State Chief Minister of the State State Cabinet State Legislative Assembly Seat State Secretariat 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. Term length No fixed tenure is imposed on the office but term can be extended. 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The position is a cadre post for the Indian Administrative Service. Contents 1 History 2 States 2.1 List of current Chief Secretaries in the States of India 3 Union territories 3.1 List of current Chief Secretaries / Administrators / Advisor to Administrators of Union territories of India 4 See also 5 References 6 Bibliography History The salary of Chief Secretary of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Punjab and Burma was fixed and was same to Joint Secretary to Government of India during the British Raj. As per Warrant or Precedence of 1905, Secretary to Government of India was listed together with Joint Secretary to Government of India and was ranked above the rank of Chief Secretary. States Chief Secretaries are members of the Indian Administrative Service ( IAS ) who are the administrative head of state governments. A Chief Secretary functions as the central point of interdepartmental coordination at the departmental level and is classified as being in the Apex Grade. Chief Secretary is considered to be the Chief Executive of the state government and considered to be ' a linchpin ' in the administration. Chief Secretary of the state also acts as the ex-officio Chairman of the State Civil Service Board, which recommends transfer / postings of officers of All India Services and State Civil Services in the state. Traditionally, the most senior IAS officer within a state is chosen as the Chief Secretary ; however, there are exceptions. Chief Secretaries are assisted by Additional Chief Secretaries or Special Chief Secretaries, depending on the state, and Principal Secretaries, who are the administrative heads of departments they are assigned to. Chief Secretaries are chosen by the state 's Chief Minister. State Chief Secretaries are IAS officers generally equivalent in rank to a Secretary to Government of India and are placed 23rd on Indian Order of Precedence. The post of Chief Secretary of a State Government is equivalent to Vice Chief of the Army Staff / Commanders and officers in the rank of full General and its equivalents in the Indian Armed Forces, and are listed as such in the Order of Precedence. List of current Chief Secretaries in the States of India Chief Secretaries of States hide S.No. State Capital Chief Secretary Batch Andhra Pradesh Amaravati Dinesh Kumar, IAS Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar Satya Gopal, IAS 1984 Assam Dispur TY Das, IAS 1982 Bihar Patna Deepak Kumar, IAS 1984 5 Chhattisgarh Raipur Ajay Singh, IAS 6 Goa Panaji Dharmendra Sharma, IAS 7 Gujarat Gandhinagar J.N. Singh, IAS 8 Haryana Chandigarh D.S. Dhesi, IAS 1982 9 Himachal Pradesh Shimla B.K. Agarwal, IAS 1985 10 Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar ( May - Oct ) and Jammu ( Nov - Apr ) B.V.R. Subrahmanyam, IAS 1986 11 Jharkhand Ranchi Sudhir Tripathi, IAS 1985 12 Karnataka Bengaluru TM Vijay Bhaskar, IAS 13 Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Tom Jose, IAS 1984 14 Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Basant Pratap Singh, IAS 1984 15 Maharashtra Mumbai Dinesh Kumar Jain., IAS 16 Manipur Imphal Rajani Ranjan Rashmi, IAS 17 Meghalaya Shillong Yeshi Tsering, IAS 18 Mizoram Aizawl Arvind Ray, IAS 1984 19 Nagaland Kohima Pankaj Kumar, IAS 20 Odisha Bhubaneswar Aditya Prasad Padhi, IAS 21 Punjab Chandigarh Karan A. Singh, IAS 1984 22 Rajasthan Jaipur DB Gupta, IAS 1982 23 Sikkim Gangtok A.K. Srivastava, IAS 1984 24 Tamil Nadu Chennai Girija Vaidyanathan, IAS 1981 25 Telangana Hyderabad Shailendra Kumar Joshi, IAS 1984 26 Tripura Agartala Sanjeev Ranjan, IAS 1985 27 Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Dr. Anup Chandra Pandey, IAS 1984 28 Uttarakhand Dehradun Utpal Kumar Singh, IAS 1986 29 West Bengal Kolkata Malay Kumar Dev, IAS 1985 Union territories In the union territories, which are governed by Administrators, Chief Secretaries are absent. In these territories an Adviser to the Administrator is appointed by the Union Government. However, the union territories of Delhi and Puducherry, which have been granted partial statehood, do have Chief Secretaries. In Delhi and Puducherry, the Chief Minister chooses the Chief Secretary and is appointed by the Lieutenant Governor. Chief Secretaries and Advisers to Administrators of Union Territories, in general, are junior in rank compared to the Chief Secretaries of States. The office bearers generally are of the rank Joint Secretary to Government of India and its equivalents. However, in NCT of Delhi and UT of Chandigarh, the topmost civil servant is either of the ranks of Secretary to Government of India and its equivalents or Additional Secretary to Government of India and its equivalents. List of current Chief Secretaries / Administrators / Advisor to Administrators of Union territories of India Chief Secretaries / Advisor to Administrators of Union Territories hide S. no Union territory Capital Chief Secretary / Advisor to Administrator Batch Andaman and Nicobar Islands Port Blair Anindo Majumdar, IAS 1985 Chandigarh Chandigarh Parimal Rai, IAS 1985 Dadra and Nagar Haveli Silvassa Praful Khoda Patel - Daman and Diu Daman Praful Khoda Patel - 5 Lakshadweep Kavaratti Farooq Khan - 6 National Capital Territory of Delhi Delhi Anshu Prakash, IAS 1986 7 Puducherry Pondicherry Manoj Kumar Parida, IAS 1986 See also Cabinet Secretary of India Secretary to Government of India Joint Secretary to Government of India Additional Chief Secretary Special Chief Secretary Principal Secretary Director General of Police Head of Forest Forces References Jump up ^ `` Report of the 7th Central Pay Commission of India '' ( PDF ). Seventh Central Pay Commission, Government of India. 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Question: chief secretary of a state is chief of
Answer: the Chief Executive of the state government