Ritesh Agrawal new CHiPS CEO

     Raipur, October 20, 2022: Chhattisgarh government today appointed Ritesh Kumar Agrawal as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Chhattisgarh Infotech Biotech Promotion Society (CHiPS).

     2012-Batch IAS Ritesh Kumar Agrawal is appointed as the interim CEO of the CHiPS, a General Administration Department order said.

     Agrawal will continue as the Managing Director of the Text Book Corporation of the state, and CHiPS would be his additional charge, it said.

     The Enforcement Directorate on October 13, 2022 arrested a 2009-batch IAS Sameer Vishnoi two days after the central agency raided premises of the senior officials, politicians and businessmen in the state.

     Vishnoi was that time posted as CEO of the CHiPS and Managing Director of the State Cooperative Marketing Federation (Markfed).