Having got his third extension in service, Durga Shankar Mishra, IAS, will now set a record as the second longest serving chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh.
He has already made history for being the first IAS officer in the country to have already got three extensions as chief secretary (CS) after retirement.
Following the Centre’s approval, the UP government on Sunday issued orders giving six months’ extension to Mishra as the state’s chief secretary — the post he has been holding since December 31, 2021. He was given one year’s extension on December 31, 2022.
Additional chief secretary, appointment and personnel, Devesh Chaturvedi said, “We have issued orders extending the present chief secretary’s tenure for six months, that is till June 30, 2024.”
Mishra will have a tenure spanning two-and-a-half-years when he quits after six months if he does not get yet another extension, the possibility of which nobody can deny at this juncture.
But even the 30 months’ tenure that he is already endowed with, will be the longest tenure that any other IAS officer, probably, barring Atul Kumar Gupta, can boast of in the recent decades.