New Delhi, Dec 2: Lok Sabha Secretary General Utpal Kumar Singh has been granted a one-year extension, according to an official order. The tenure has been extended by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla until November 30, 2025. Singh, a 1986-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Uttarakhand cadre, assumed office as Lok Sabha Secretary General on December 1, 2020. His tenure has been extended multiple times since then. Before this, he retired as the chief secretary of Uttarakhand on July 31, 2020, and took charge of the Lok Sabha Secretariat on September 1, 2020. He succeeded Snehlata Shrivastav, who retired three months prior.
With 34 years of extensive administrative experience, Singh has held various key positions in both the central and state governments, contributing to several sectors of the economy and governance.
