New Delhi (23.09.2025): Barely a week is left when Delhi
Chief Secretary Dharmendra (IAS: 1989: AGMUT) would be retiring i.e. on
September 30, 2025, but a section of well-placed sources says that the New
Delhi establishment would prefer to continue with him as CS. Such high-profile
appointments or extensions like CS are mostly decided at the last-moment. They
are influenced by a host of factors – political, administrative and strategic. The decision is likely to be made to chart out future plans
of the relatively inexperienced BJP government in the National Capital
Territory (NCT), making the selection process little tedious. However, power
corridors in the city are also rife with speculation over his successor. Though there at least five senior IAS officers who are said
to be in the reckoning yet in all likelihood the incumbent would get extension
in service. The other names in the seniority included Amit Yadav (1991),
Debashree Mukherjee (1991), Bipul Pathak (1992), Ashwani Kumar (1992), Punya
Salila Srivastava (1993) and Vikram Dev Dutt (1993).
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Will Delhi Chief Secretary get extension?
By IndianMandarins - 2025-09-23 15:37:00
New Delhi (23.09.2025): Barely a week is left when Delhi Chief Secretary Dharmendra (IAS: 1989: AGMUT) would be retiring i.e. on September 30, 2025, but a section of well-placed sources says that the New Delhi establishment would prefer to continue with him as CS. Such high-profile appointments or extensions like CS are mostly decided at the last-moment. They are influenced by a host of factors – political, administrative and strategic.
The decision is likely to be made to chart out future plans of the relatively inexperienced BJP government in the National Capital Territory (NCT), making the selection process little tedious. However, power corridors in the city are also rife with speculation over his successor.
Though there at least five senior IAS officers who are said to be in the reckoning yet in all likelihood the incumbent would get extension in service. The other names in the seniority included Amit Yadav (1991), Debashree Mukherjee (1991), Bipul Pathak (1992), Ashwani Kumar (1992), Punya Salila Srivastava (1993) and Vikram Dev Dutt (1993).
