THE government on Tuesday appointed 1988 batch Odisha cadre IPS officer Arun Kumar Ray as deputy chairman in Tea Board, Kolkata. The IPS officer will hold the rank of a union joint secretary. According to the order approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, the police officer will have a tenure of 2 years, extendable upto 5 years. Meanwhile, the tenure of another IPS officer — 1987 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IPS Sudhir Kumar Saxena — has been curtailed. He has been serving as…