V. Srinivas takes cost as Rajasthan Chief Secretary

Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer V. Srinivas took cost as the brand new Chief Secretary of Rajasthan in Jaipur on Monday (November 17, 2025), changing Sudhansh Pant, who has been shifted to the Centre on deputation. Mr. Srinivas, a 1989-batch officer, had additionally spent the final seven years on deputation in New Delhi.

Along with the Chief Secretary’s put up, Mr. Srinivas will maintain the extra cost of chairman of the Rajasthan State Mines and Minerals Limited and the State’s Principal Resident Commissioner in New Delhi. He will serve until September 2026, when he’s scheduled to retire.

Mr. Srinivas was earlier serving because the Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, within the Union authorities. He has outdated one IAS officer within the seniority checklist, as he’s the second most senior officer within the Rajasthan cadre after Subodh Agarwal of the 1988 batch.

Mr. Pant’s sudden departure from the State in the midst of his tenure because the Chief Secretary has been considered for example of the Centre exercising affect over key bureaucratic appointments. A significant administrative reshuffle is more likely to comply with Mr. Srinivas’s appointment, with adjustments anticipated within the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) and in some key departments.

Mr. Srinivas mentioned after assuming workplace on the State Secretariat right here that he would develop a roadmap for implementing the State authorities’s imaginative and prescient of “Viksit Rajasthan-2047” and attracting investments to key sectors. “My main goal will probably be to determine a greater coordination amongst all departments and pursue the precedence sector programmes with speedy and efficient implementation of the federal government’s plans,” he mentioned.

The new Chief Secretary mentioned the State had witnessed vital improvements in agriculture, watershed improvement, well being care and social safety, and a number of other of those fashions had been adopted on the Centre as properly. The implementation of MoUs signed in the course of the Rising Rajasthan Global Investment Summit-2024 would even be expedited, he added.

A seasoned bureaucrat, Mr. Srinivas has held a number of key positions within the State and on the Centre. He labored as non-public secretary to then External Affairs and Finance Minister Jaswant Singh in the course of the NDA authorities and later served in Washington, D.C., because the technical assistant to India’s Executive Director on the International Monetary Fund.