Overview
- The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet cleared Sudhansh Pant’s posting as Secretary, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.
- Pant leaves the Rajasthan Chief Secretary post roughly 13 months before his scheduled February 2027 retirement.
- He has served as Chief Secretary since January 1, 2024 and is a 1991-batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre.
- His earlier central roles include Union Health and Family Welfare Secretary and Shipping and Waterways Secretary, following multiple Delhi tenures.
- This is the second mid-tenure move of a Rajasthan Chief Secretary to the Centre in recent memory, echoing Rajiv Maharishi’s 2013 transfer to Delhi.