Uttarakhand First Woman Chief Secretary | 01 Feb 2024

Why in News?

Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Radha Raturi was appointed as the first woman chief secretary of Uttarakhand.

Key Points

  • Raturi, an IAS officer of the 1988 batch, replaced Sukhbir Singh Sandhu. She is the first woman to hold the top administrative post in Uttarakhand.
  • She has worked as a bureaucrat both in undivided Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, which came into existence in November 2000.