N C Goel (IAS:1982: RJ) has merged as the frontrunner for the post of Rajasthan Chief Secretary. Currently, he is serving as Additional Chief Secretary, Forest, and has only four months in hand to retire.
The incumbent Chief Secretary Ashok Jain (IAS:1981: RJ) is scheduled to retire in two days.
Altogether, four names, including Goel's, are said to be in the reckoning. They are D B Gupta (IAS:1983:RJ), ACS (Finance); Vipin Chandra Sharma (IAS:1982:RJ), ACS (Administrative Reforms); and Ms Gurjot Kaur (IAS:1981:RJ) ACS and DG (HCM, RIPA)- the senior-most officer among all four contenders.