Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba is scheduled to retire on August 30, 2024. He was appointed to the country’s top bureaucratic post for two years in 2019 and since then his services to the post have been extended thrice, thus making him the longest-serving Cabinet Secretary (five years). He is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre. It is said he is now unlikely to get further extension.
