Senior bureaucrat S C Gupta has been appointed as the new chief secretary of Sikkim, an official notification said.
The 1986-batch IAS officer will take charge as the chief secretary on October 1 upon the superannuation of present Chief Secretary A K Shrivastava on September 30, the notification issued by Principal Secretary Tenzing Gelek said.
Gupta will continue to hold the additional charge as the home secretary, it said.
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