MP chief secretary Bains gets six-month extension

The Union government on Wednesday gave its nod to the Madhya Pradesh governments proposal to grant extension of six months to the states chief secretary Iqbal S Bains, official sources said.Bains, a 1985-batch Indian Administrative Service IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, was supposed to retire on Wednesday. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had written to the Department of Personnel and Training DoPT on November 9 about grant of extension to Bains, sources said.

The Union government on Wednesday gave its nod to the Madhya Pradesh government's proposal to grant extension of six months to the state's chief secretary Iqbal S Bains, official sources said.

Bains, a 1985-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, was supposed to retire on Wednesday. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had written to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on November 9 about grant of extension to Bains, sources said. Bains will now remain chief secretary of Madhya Pradesh till May 31, 2023. The extension to Bains ended speculation in the bureaucratic circles about who would be the next chief secretary ahead of state elections. Assembly polls are due in Madhya Pradesh in November 2023. PTI MAS KRK KRK