West Bengal has appointed IAS officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal, a seasoned 1990-batch bureaucrat, as the state’s new Chief Secretary. The reshuffle comes at a crucial moment, and government sources point to his “calm leadership style” and “institutional memory” as major reasons he rose above other senior contenders to take charge of top administration.
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