LUCKNOW, Jan. 13 -- The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday granted promotion to eight IAS officers of 1995 batch of the state cadre to level 17 of pay matrix (apex scale). Five of these officers are posted in the state and thus get promoted from the rank of principal secretary to additional chief secretary. With this Sanjay Prasad, who was the principal secretary to the chief minister, has been promoted as additional chief secretary to the chief minister. Other officers promoted to ACS rank include chairman UPPCL Ashish Goel, principal secretary tourism and culture Amrit Abhijat, R Ramesh Kumar and principal secretary animal husbandry, dairy development and fisheries Mukesh Meshram. Three other officers, who are on deputation to the Centre, have also been given proforma promotion. HTC...