Gujarat govt appoints Manoj Kumar Das as new Chief Secretary October 28, 2025

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has appointed senior IAS officer Manoj Kumar Das as the new Chief Secretary to the Government.

According to an official notification issued by the General Administration Department (GAD), Manoj Kumar Das (IAS, 1990 batch), who is currently serving as Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister, has been transferred and appointed as Chief Secretary with effect from October 31, 2025 (afternoon).

He will succeed the incumbent Chief Secretary, Pankaj Joshi, who will superannuate from service on the same date.

Das is a senior IAS officer with over three decades of service in public administration. An engineering graduate specializing in computer science from IIT Kharagpur

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