Jaipur Jan 31 PTI Senior IAS officer Usha Sharma was appointed as the chief secretary of Rajasthan on Monday The 1985 batch officer is only the second woman to occupy the top-most bureaucratic position in the state She succeeded Niranjan Arya who retired from the service As the chief secretary Sharma will invariably also be the chief advisor to the chief minister The Ashok Gehlot government had in 2009 appointed Kushal Singh as the first woman chief secretary of the state Until now Sharma was the secretary of the Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry in New Delhi on deputation She has been in Delhi on deputation since May 2012 during which she also served as the Additional Director General of Tourism Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India and Additional Secretary of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances In Rajasthan Sharma has held the posts of Principal Secretary Tourism Commissioner Tourism Commissioner Industries and Secretary Urban Development and Housing among others PTI SDA CJ CJ
Jaipur Jan 19 PTI A retired IRS officer allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison owing to domestic issues police said on Wednesday Shankar Lal Jain 64 was found dead at his factory that manufactures snacks in Bassi area earlier in the day A suicide note was recovered from the spot police said Jain was upset as he was unable to marry off his children His business was also going through a lean phase they said According to the police Jain was staying at his factory since Monday and did not contact his family members The factory workers found him dead when they opened the door in the morning police said Jains body will be handed over to his family after autopsy they saidPTI AG CJ CJ
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