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XShimla: Barely twenty hours after he was moved out of the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board (HPSEB) to the HP State Pollution Control Board as its Chairman, the 1988-batch IAS officer Sanjay Gupta has been given additional charge of the state’s Chief Secretary.

He replaces 1990-batch Prabodh Saxena, whose six-month extended term as the Chief Secretary had ended on Tuesday.

Saxena has now been posted as Chairman of the HPSEB Ltd in place of Sanjay Gupta. He will have a year’s term on the Board, virtually coinciding with the term of the state government led by Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu.

One may well question why the state government has not appointed a regular Chief Secretary, much like the case of the Director General of Police, where Ashok Tiwari, a 1993-batch IPS officer,

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