Sujata Saunik is an IAS officer of the 1987 batch

Senior IAS officer Sujata Saunik on Sunday took more than as Maharashtra’s Chief Secretary, starting to be the very first girl in the state’s 64-12 months-old heritage to occupy the major submit.

Sujata Saunik, an IAS officer of the 1987 batch, succeeds Nitin Kareer who retired as the main secretary on Sunday. She will have a year’s tenure ahead of retiring in June subsequent year, an formal claimed.

Nitin Kareer handed about the charge to Sujata Saunik at a ceremony held at Mantralaya, the point out secretariat in south Mumbai Monday evening.

Prior to her elevation as the main secretary, Sujata Saunik, whose husband Manoj Saunik is also a previous state main secretary, was the supplemental main secretary in the condition property office.

Sujata Saunik has 3 many years of public policy and governance expertise in health care, finance, instruction, catastrophe administration, and peacekeeping at the district, condition, and federal concentrations and in intercontinental organisations as component of the Indian Administrative Service and the United Nations.

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