Vivek Joshi, Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner
Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Vivek Joshi, will be the new secretary, Department of Financial Services, in place of Malhotra
New Delhi:
Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Vivek Joshi, will be the new secretary, Department of Financial Services, in place of Sanjay Malhotra who will be the new revenue secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Wednesday.
Malhotra has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty in the Department of Revenue. He will take over as secretary, Department of Revenue, after Tarun Bajaj completes his term on November 30.
National Highways Authority of India chairperson Alka Upadhyaya will be the new road and transport secretary replacing Giridhar who has been named the new defence secretary.
Giridhar, a 1988-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty in the Department of Defence.
He will take over as secretary of the Department of Defence after the retirement of Ajay Kumar on October 31, a personnel ministry order said.