Navneet Sehgal appointed additional chief secretary of UP Info department

Navneet Sehgal will replace Awanish Kumar Awasthi as Additional Chief Secretary of Information department. Sanjay Prasad, Principal Secretary to CM would also have an additional charge of Principal Secretary Information.

Lucknow: In a major bureaucratic reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath named Navneet Sehgal as the additional chief secretary of the Information department.

The reshuffle, sources said, was because of the poor media management during the Hathras incident.

Navneet Sehgal will take charge of the Information and Public Relations Department, tasked with the image handling of the state government.

The charge was earlier held by Awanish Awasthi.

Sanjay Prasad, Principal Secretary to CM would also have an additional charge of Principal Secretary Information.

Both, Navneet Sehgal and Sanjay Prasad have served earlier in the information department.

Meanwhile, Babu Lal Meena has been made the Principal Secretary Social Welfare which has been taken away from Manoj Singh who is additional chief secretary.