Hyderabad, July 20 -- A day after IPS officer Dr RS Praveen Kumar announced that he is quitting the services and seeking voluntary retirement, Telangana government on Tuesday appointed former Mahabubnagar district collector Ronald Rose as secretary for Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TSWREIS).

In a governmental order here, the state government said that it is relieving Dr Kumar with immediate effect. Kumar had earlier mentioned in a statement that he had mailed his request for voluntary retirement to the chief secretary.

The same order mentioned that it is placing an additional charge upon Ronald Rose, the current special secretary to the government in the finance department as the secretary of TSW...