Rajiv Gauba has been named as the next Home Secretary and Subash C Garg as the next Secretary of Department of Economic Affairs. Rajiv Gauba will succeed Rajiv Mehrishi. He will be appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Ministry of Home Affairs from September 1.

His tenure will get completed on August 30.Gauba, who is currently serving as Secretary in the Ministry of Urban Development, hails from Punjab and is a physics graduate from Patna University.

Garg, the 1983 Rajasthan cadre, will be succeeding Shaktikanta Das. He was working as the Executive Director of the World Bank.

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