Vice President's new PS is D Prasanth Kumar Reddy

Bureaucrat D Prasanth Kumar Reddy has been appointed as private secretary (PS) to Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, according to an order issued by the Personnel Ministry on Monday.

Reddy, a 2009-batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, has been appointed to the post for a tenure of five years or on co-terminus basis with the vice president's tenure, it said.

He is at present posted in his state cadre.