New Delhi:
Arunish Chawla, an IAS officer of the 1992 batch has been appointed the brand new Income Secretary in a reshuffle of prime bureaucrats introduced by the Centre on Wednesday.
Arunish Chawla, who’s from the Bihar cadre, is at present the prescription drugs secretary. He has been appointed secretary, Division of Income, Ministry of Finance, in line with a round issued by the Ministry of Personnel.
The publish of Income Secretary had fallen vacant, earlier this month, after Sanjay Malhotra was appointed the RBI Governor to interchange Shaktikanta Das whose prolonged tenure got here to an finish.
Mr Chawla may even proceed to carry the extra cost of Secretary, Ministry of Tradition until the appointment of an everyday incumbent, the order said.
Amit Agrawal, chief government officer of Distinctive Identification Authority of India, will take over as the brand new prescription drugs secretary, changing Mr Chawla.
As a part of the reshuffle, Vineet Joshi, who can also be a 1992 batch IAS officer, has been appointed because the Secretary of Increased Training. He was serving as Chief Secretary of Manipur since Might final yr. Previous to this he was the extra secretary of the Division of Increased Training and is effectively versed with the working of the Training Ministry.
The change additionally consists of the posting of Rachna Shah as Secretary of the Division of Personnel. She was till now the Secretary of the Textiles Ministry.
Neelam Shammi Rao, who was till now the Secretary of the Minorities Fee, has been appointed because the Textiles Secretary instead of Shah. Sanjay Sethi, an IAS officer of the Maharashtra cadre will take over as the brand new Secretary of the Minorities Fee.
The order additionally states that Neerja Sekhar, at present the particular secretary within the Ministry of Data and Broadcasting, would be the director common of the Nationwide Productiveness Council underneath the Division for Promotion of Business and Inner Commerce.
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