The Chief Secretary of Jharkhand is the top-most executive official and senior-most civil servant of the state of Jharkhand, India. The Chief Secretary is the ex-officio head of the state Civil Services Board, the State Secretariat, the state cadre Indian Administrative Service and all civil services under the rules of business of the state government. The Chief Secretary acts as the principal advisor to the chief minister on all matters of state administration.
The Chief Secretary is the officer of Indian Administrative Service. The Chief Secretary is the senior-most cadre post in the state administration, ranking 23rd on the Indian order of precedence. The Chief Secretary acts as an ex-officio secretary to the state cabinet, therefore called "Secretary to the Cabinet". The status of this post is equal to that of a Secretary to the Government of India.
Avinash Kumar is the current Chief Secretary of the Government of Jharkhand, since on 1 October 2025.
Chief secretaries Source:
NameTook officeLeft office1Vijay Shankar Dubey 15 November 200031 July 20022G. Krishnan 1 August 200231 March 20033A. K. Mishra1 April 200331 October 20034Laxmi Singh 1 November 200313 December 20045P. P. Sharma 14 December 200418 January 20066M. K. Mandal 19 January 200628 February 20077A. K. Chug 1 March 200715 August 20078P. P. Sharma 16 August 200724 February 20089A. K. Basu 25 February 200831 August 200910Shiv Basant 1 September 20093 April 201011A. K. Singh 3 April 201015 March 201112A. K. Choudhary 15 March 201131 March 201313R. S. Sharma 31 March 201330 April 201414Sajal Chakraborty 30 April 2014 14 August 201415Sudhir Prasad 14 August 201430 September 2014(14)Sajal Chakraborty 1 October 201415 December 201416R. S. Poddar 16 December 201419 December 2014(14)Sajal Chakraborty 19 December 201420 January 201517Rajiv Gauba27 January 201531 March 2016 18Rajbala Verma31 March 201628 February 201819Sudhir Tripathi28 February 201831 March 201920D. K. Tiwari31 March 201931 March 202021Sukhdev Singh1 April 20206 December 202322L. Khiangte6 December 202331 October 202423Alka Tiwari1 November 202430 September 202524 Avinash Kumar1 October 2025Incumbent
See also Government of Jharkhand Indian Administrative Service List of chief secretaries of Mizoram
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