JAMMU, Oct 4: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Saturday appointed senior IAS officer H Rajesh Prasad as the new Chief Secretary of Chandigarh, filling the vacancy created after the recent transfer of Rajeev Verma to Delhi where he took charge as Chief Secretary earlier this week.

Prasad, a 1995-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre, was serving in Jammu and Kashmir before this appointment. His posting to Chandigarh comes as part of a wider reshuffle notified by the MHA, which also shifted 2003-batch IAS officer Ankur Garg from Arunachal Pradesh to the post of Advisor to the Administrator of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu.

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