Telangana Govt Appoints Shailendra Kumar Joshi as new Cheif Secretary

Hyderabad Jan 31: Telangana Government on Wednesday has appointed Senior IAS officer Shailendra Kumar Joshi as the chief secretary of the Telangana government. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao took a decision and issued a release in this regard. Joshi is currently serving as the special chief secretary in the irrigation department.

The IAS officer was born on December 20, 1959, at Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh and he joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1984.He has started his career as an assistant collector in Nellore district in the then undivided Andhra Pradesh.Joshi had held various positions in his career as a civil servant.



He had a nine-year stint in the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests in two spells (from 1991 to 1994 and 2001 to 2006) in various capacities, dealing with the Ganga river conservation, and the National Afforestation and Eco-Development Board.

Joshi was also involved in negotiations related to the Montreal Protocol on the ozone-depleting substances.