NEW DELHI: The Central government has transferred the current Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg to the Ministry of Energy in a bureaucratic reshuffle. Atanu Chakraborty, the current secretary of the Department of Investment and Public Property Management (DIPAM), was appointed the new secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs. The reshuffle will come into force with immediate effect. Garg was also secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs. According to an official notification, he will now take over as Energy Secretary to replace Ajay Kumar Bhalla.
Bhalla has been appointed OSD (Officer on Special Duty) in the Ministry of Home Affairs. The reshuffle is seen as deportation for Garg as the post of Finance Secretary is considered to be highly prestigious in the bureaucracy and is usually given to the most senior officer in the ministry. After Garg's transfer from the Finance Ministry, the government can now select one of the current Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey and Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Kumar for the post of Finance Secretary.
According to an order issued on Wednesday evening, the next secretary of the DIPM will be Anil Kumar Khachi. He is an IAS officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre of 1986 batch. Meanwhile, Anshu Prakash, additional secretary of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has been made the secretary of the department. He will take over on July 31 after the retirement of the current Secretary of the DOT Aruna Sundararajan.
The Cabinet Committee on Appointments has approved the appointment of Guruprasad Mohapatra, the present Chairman of Airports Authority of India (AAI), as Secretary, Department of Industry and Internal Trade Promotion (DPIT) in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. enmity. S.K. Singh. Shukla has been appointed Secretary in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. Anuradha Mitra has been appointed Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs (Department of Official Language) while Ravi Kapoor has been appointed Secretary in the Ministry of Textiles.
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