The Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand is the senior-most civil servant in Uttarakhand. The secretary acts as the ex-officio Secretary to the Uttarakhand Council of Ministers, therefore is also known as Secretary to the Cabinet. The Chief secretary is the Head of the Uttarakhand Cabinet Secretariat Department. The functions include providing secretarial assistance to the cabinet, ensuring the implementation of decisions, acting as the policy coordination centre, serving as a data bank of information, organizing conferences. The Chief Secretary is an officer of Indian Administrative Service and is a member of the executive branch of the Government of Uttarakhand. The Chief Secretary ranks 23rd on the Indian order of precedence.

Anand Bardhan is the incumbent Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand since 1 April 2025.

List of chief secretaries of Uttarakhand No.NameTenureChief Minister1Ajay Vikram Singh9 November 200031 August 2001Nityanand Swami2Madhukar Gupta1 September 200131 August 2003Bhagat Singh KoshyariN. D. Tiwari3Raghunandan Singh Tolia1 September 200330 September 20054M. Ramachandran1 October 200531 October 20065Surjit Kishor Das1 November 200631 August 2008B. C. Khanduri6Indu Kumar Pandey1 September 200830 November 2009B. C. KhanduriRamesh Pokhriyal7Nrip Singh Napalchyal1 December 200931 August 20108Subhash Kumar1 September 201031 May 2012Ramesh PokhriyalB. C. KhanduriVijay Bahuguna9Alok Kumar Jain1 June 201230 April 2013(8)Subhash Kumar1 May 201330 September 2014Vijay BahugunaHarish Rawat10N. Ravishankar1 October 201431 July 201511Rakesh Sharma1 August 201531 October 201512Shatrughna Singh1 November 201530 November 201613S. Ramaswamy1 December 201624 October 2017Harish RawatTrivendra Singh Rawat14Utpal Kumar Singh25 October 201731 July 202015Om Prakash Singh1 August 20206 July 2021Trivendra Singh RawatTirath Singh Rawat16Sukhbir Singh Sandhu7 July 202131 January 2024Pushkar Singh Dhami17Radha Raturi1 February 202431 March 202518Anand Bardhan1 April 2025Incumbent

See also Governor of Uttarakhand Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Cabinet of Uttarakhand List of Uttarakhand ministries List of agencies of the government of Uttarakhand List of departments of the government of Uttarakhand Chief Justice of Uttarakhand List of judges of the Uttarakhand High Court Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly Leader of the Opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly Uttarakhand Public Service Commission Provincial Civil Service (Uttarakhand) Vinod Prasad Raturi

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