Bengal govt names Nandini Chakraborty as new home secretary

The appointment of former home secretary BP Gopalika was also confirmed as the new Chief Secretary of the state.

The appointment of the 1989-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, who was recently named for the post, after Dwivedi’s extension on the post came to an end on Sunday. Dwivedi has been appointed as the chief adviser (finance) to the CM for three years.

In February this year, Nandini Chakraborty was removed from the post of principal secretary in the Raj Bhawan as “desired” by Governor Bose.

Chakraborty was removed after she had refused to clear a proposal for the formation of an advisory committee for the Governor in which Bose’s choice was a former IAS officer from the Tamil Nadu cadre and a former IPS officer who had worked as the CBI’s special director as well as Delhi Police commissioner, sources had said.

Chakraborty, a 1994-batch IAS officer from the West Bengal cadre, was Bengal appointed as principal secretary to former state Governor La Ganesan, who had taken interim charge, after Jagdeep Dhankhar, in August 2022. She continued in the post till Bose’s appointment in November 2022. Then she was appointed the state tourism secretary.