New Delhi, July 22: Steel secretary Jai Singh Gill was today appointed chief secretary to Punjab government. The appointments committee of the cabinet has approved appointment of Gill, a 1968 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre, as chief secretary after July 31, an official release said.

V K Duggal, special secretary in the ministry of environment and forests, will succeed Gill as the steel secretary.

Union Public Service Commission secretary Navin B Chawla has been shifted to the environment and forests ministry in place of Duggal.

Bureau Report