The Chief secretary of the state government of Tamil Nadu, Girija Vaidyanathan, has ordered that Mr. Pradeep Yadav has been appointed as the new principal secretary of school education department.
A temporary post of principal secretary for the department of education has been created by the state government and Pradeep Yadav, who is the present commissioner of the Food and Consumer safety department, has been appointed to this post.
The present secretary of the department of education, Udayachandran, will continue to function in the same post and will be exclusively in charge of the syllabus.
The order from the Tamil Nadu state government mentions that Udayachandran will be working under the newly appointed principal secretary of the department of education, Pradeep Yadav.