Gandhinagar, 28 January 2013

Varesh Sinha has been appointed as a new Chief Secretary of Gujarat state. Outgoing Chief Secretary Shri AK Joti retires on 31 January 2013. Shri Sinha will replace him. Joti is Chief Secretary of Gujarat since January 2010.

1977 batch Indian Administrative Service(IAS) officer Dr. Varesh Sinha is presently the Additional Chief Secretary of Finance department, Government of Gujarat. Before then he served as Additional Chief Secretary, Home and Labour and Employment departments. Prior that he was Principal Secretary, Education department. He has held several important positions with Government of Gujarat having worked in various sectors like Tourism, Agri-business, Energy, Education, Panchayat, Urban, Labour, Home, Finance, etc.

Shri Sinha has graduated in Science [Physics & Maths] and has completed his Masters in “Mathematical Statistics”. He has also done Master of Business Administration [MBA] and Ph.D. [Statistics]. During his career, he has held key positions at the State Government level.