RD Dhiman replaces Ram Subhag Singh as Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary.

July 15, 2022

The HP Government replaced Chief Secretary Ram Subhag Singh with a 1988-batch IAS officer, RD Dhiman, Additional Chief Secretary (Power and Industry).
Chief Secretary Ram Subhag, a 1987-batch officer, will superannuate in July 2023.
Subhag has been posted as Principal Adviser (PA) Administrative Reforms.
Two officers whom Dhiman superseded have also been appointed as principal advisers to the government. They are Subhag’s wife Nisha Singh (Training) and Sanjay Gupta (Public Grievances).
Incidentally, Subhag is the fifth Chief Secretary not to complete the tenure during the present regime.
The other such officials include VC Pharka, Vineet Chawdhary, BK Aggarwal and Anil Khachi.
RD Dhiman is due to retire in December this year and as such his tenure as Chief Secretary will coincide with the Jai Ram government’s term. Dhiman too had applied for the CIC post.