UP Chief Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra on 7-day leave; Retirement due this month

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary (CS) Durga Shanker Mishra has gone on 7-day leave to attend a family wedding in Rajasthan.

According to exclusive information received by Dynamite News, in the absence of Chief Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra, Agricultural Production Commissioner Manoj Kumar Singh will hold the charge of CS for seven days.

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The tenure of the 1984-batch senior IAS officer Durga Shanker Mishra is ending on December 31 this year. 

Earlier, the government has given him extension of service twice from January 2022 to December 2022 and the second extension from January 2023 to December 2023.

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Meanwhile, State bureaucratic circles are abuzz about Mishra's third extension.

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