NEW DELHI: Senior IAS officer Anurag Jain has assumed charge as Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh.

The 1989 batch IAS officer born in Gwalior was first posted as assistant collector in Sagar district in June 1990. He later served as the collector of Mandla, Mandsaur and Bhopal districts.

He also served in various departments of the state as secretary, principal secretary and additional chief secretary.Jain was posted as secretary in the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and also served as a joint secretary in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

Jain has a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and an MA in public administration from Maxwell Institute in the United States of America (USA).