Jaipal Singh, a Gujarat-cadre IFS officer, has been appointed Private Secretary to Minister of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary.
Singh, a 1991-batch Indian Forest Service officer is presently working as Director in Department of Higher Education.
He has been appointed for a period of upto September 26, 2018, which is maximum period of seven years of stay outside the cadre in a single stint, or on a co-terminus basis with the minister's tenure, an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training said.
