Lalnunmawia Chuaungo, a 1987-batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, who hit the headlines during the recently concluded Mizoram assembly elections for his differences with the Election Commission, is among the 12 senior IAS officers who were promoted by the Gujarat government on Tuesday.

Chuaungo, who is at present principal secretary (home and finance) at Aizwal in Mizoram, has been promoted to the grade of Additional Chief Secretary (ACS). A notification from the General Administration Department of the Gujarat government stated that the official “is given proforma promotion under Rule 8 (5) of the IAS (Pay) Rules 2016 to the Grade of Additional Chief Secretary.”

Chuaungo was transferred to AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory) cadre in April 2018.

Other IAS officials of the 1987-batch who were promoted to the ACS grade were R P Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary, NITI Aayog; Raj Kumar, Director General, (ESIC); and Raj Gopal, Principal Secretary, Energy and Petrochemicals Department, Gandhinagar.

The government in a separate notification also promoted eight IAS officers of the 2003-batch, including Roopwant Singh, Commissioner of Geology and Mining; Sandhya Bhullar, MD, Gujarat Informatics Ltd; Swaroop P, MD, Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Ltd; and Avantika Singh Aulakh, Director of Technical Education.