Imphal: Amid efforts to restore peace in the ethnic violence-hit Manipur, Puneet Kumar Goel was named as new Manipur chief secretary in place of Prashant Kumar Singh.
“The position should be given to someone from the Manipur cadre whether a native or an outsider who understands the ground realities of the state,” said MP Lok Sabha Dr Angomcha Bimol Akoijam on Wednesday while interacting with reporters, here.
A personnel and training department order said the Union Cabinet’s appointments committee approved its proposal for Goel’s inter-cadre deputation on the curtailment of central tenure.
Puneet Kumar Goel, who served as secretary, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, was a 1991 AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territories) cadre IAS officer. Prashant Kumar Singh was a 1993 Manipur cadre IAS officer.
