The Government of Tamil Nadu has promoted seven senior IAS officers of the 1995 batch to the Chief Secretary rank.
The officers elevated to the rank are T Udhayachandran (Finance), Sandhya Venugopal (Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation), P Senthilkumar (Health and Family Welfare), R Jaya (Economics and Statistics) and M A Siddique (Chennai Metro Rail Limited).
In a separate order, six IAS officers of the 2002 batch have been promoted to the Principal Secretary grade. They include Archana Patnaik (Chief Electoral Officer), Sigy Thomas Vaidhyan (Disaster Management), C Samayamoorthy (Secretary-II to the Chief Minister), Reeta Harish Thakkar (Public and Rehabilitation) and Jayashree Muralidharan (Social Welfare and Women Empowerment).
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The government has also promoted 12 IAS officers of the 2010 batch to the super time scale. The officers are R Lalitha, Praveen P Nair, Shankar Lal Kumawat, Subodh Kumar, Ajay Yadav, Rashmi Siddharth Zagade, R Kannan, S Natarajan, A Sivagnanam, L Nirmalraj, S A Raman and A Annadurai.
All promotions will take effect from January 1, 2026.