The Punjab Government has appointed senior IAS officer Anurag Verma as the new Chief Secretary but in the process, superseded 11 other officers. Of these, 11 officers, 7 are working in the state and rest, 4 are on central deputation. To accommodate these 7 officers, they have been made Special Chief Secretaries. Verma is a 1993 batch officer. Consequent upon implementation of the order, Anirudh Tewari, IAS (1990); Anurag Agarwal, IAS (1990); A. Venu Prasad, IAS (1991); Smt. Seema Jain, IAS (1991); Sarvjit Singh, IAS (1992); Smt. Raji P. Shrivastava, IAS (1992) and KAP Sinha, IAS (1992) shall be designated as Special Chief Secretary to the Government of Punjab.