Chandigarh, June 30 -- The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) of the central government on Tuesday approved a fresh six-month extension in service for Haryana chief secretary Anurag Rastogi, allowing the 1990-batch IAS officer to continue as the state's top bureaucrat till December 31, 2026.

Rastogi, who was due to retire on June 30, 2026 after completing a one-year extension in service granted in June 2025, has become one of the few chief secretaries to receive consecutive extensions in service cumulatively extending his tenure to 22 months.

In recent memory, only a 1984 batch UP cadre officer, Durga Shankar Mishra who was repatriated from the central government to his parent cadre in 2021 and appointed as Uttar Pradesh chief ...