Shashi Prakash Goyal takes charge as UP Chief Secretary; Full details

Senior IAS Officer Shashi Prakash Goyal has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh. Goyal is a 1989-batch IAS officer. Earlier, Goyal was serving as the Additional Chief Secretary to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He is counted among the most special and close officers of the Chief Minister.

Lucknow: Senior IAS officer Shashi Prakash Goyal has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh. With the appointment of SP Goyal as the Chief Secretary, the incumbent Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Singh has retired.

Speculations of Manoj Kumar Singh getting an extension of service have also ended.

Goyal is a 1989-batch IAS officer. Earlier, Goyal was serving as the Additional Chief Secretary to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He is counted among the most special and close officers of the Chief Minister.

On 3 July, the Yogi Adityanath Government in Uttar Pradesh had written to the Department of Appointments and Personnel of the central Government to extend the service of Manoj Singh.

However, some powerful ministers in the Modi government are said to have opposed the extension to Manoj Singh. After this, the appointment of SP Goyal to this post was almost confirmed.

Big News from Uttar Pradesh: Delhi has reportedly rejected both a letter and a phone call from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Manoj Singh, considered a close aide of the CM, faced the consequences—his request for service extension was denied by the Centre, leading to his… pic.twitter.com/wZ8aLscyjj

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SP Goyal Journey

SP Goyal's first posting as an IAS officer was as Assistant Magistrate in Etawah district. He was also posted as Chief Development Officer in Aligarh, Bahraich and Meerut districts. He has also served as the District Magistrate of Mathura, Etawah, Prayagraj and Deoria.

He served as Secretary, Planning Department and Principal Secretary, Programme Implementation Department in the previous Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh.

Apart from Uttar Pradesh, he was also in Delhi on central deputation for a few years. After the formation of the Modi government at the Centre, he was then joint secretary in the Ministry of Human Resource and Higher Education.

His return to Uttar Pradesh from Delhi happened in 2017, when the BJP government was formed in UP. He was then appointed as the Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Since then, he has been holding the post and is known as one of the officers close to CM Yogi.