Affecting the first of the expected major changes a day after assuming charge as the Chief Minister, the State Government under Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami appointed SS Sandhu as the States new Chief Secretary on Monday. Previous Chief Secretary Om Prakash has been posted as the resident commissioner in Delhi.

A 1988-batch Indian Administrative Service (Ias) officer, Sandhu was on deputation to the Centre as the chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

He has served earlier in the Uttarakhand as the vice chairman of Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) and the principal secretary in Uttarakhand before going to Delhi on deputation.