THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Former chief secretary K M Abraham has been appointed chief principal secretary to the chief minister. Abraham is presently the CEO of KIIFB. Satyajit Raja has been appointed additional CEO of KIIFB. Dr K M Abraham, a 1982 batch IAS officer, retired from service in 2019. Abraham holds a B Tech in civil engineering from University of Kerala and M Tech from IIT Kanpur and a doctorate from University of Michigan in USA. He was a member of SEBI from 2008 to 2011.
C M Raveendran will continue as additional private secretary. Raveendran was holding the same post in the first Pinarayi government also. Raveendran was questioned by the Directorate of Enforcement in the gold and dollar smuggling cases.
A Rajasekharan Nair will be the special private secretary. Dinesh Bhaskar and P Gopan will also be additional private secretaries. An order appointing K K Ragesh as private secretary was issued earlier.