Anand Bardhan

Anand Bardhan is an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1992 batch and the Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand, the senior-most civil servant in the state government. He took charge at the state secretariat in Dehradun on 31 March 2025, when Radha Raturi, the state’s first woman chief secretary, completed her extended tenure. He works under Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.

Bardhan belongs to the Uttarakhand cadre. A civil service tracking site lists his earlier posts as Additional Chief Secretary, Infrastructure Development Commissioner, Agriculture Production Commissioner and Food Commissioner, along with district magistrate postings.

He is in the news because of the 98th meeting of the State Level Bankers Committee, which he chaired in Dehradun on 12 November 2026. There he told major banks to post representatives at the 1930 cyber helpline centres and the State Cyber Crime Coordination Centre within 15 days, and asked banks to meet their current-year targets by the first week of January.

Sources: ThePrint, Wikipedia, List of chief secretaries of Uttarakhand, The Secretariat, Pioneer Edge.