Senior IAS officer T V Somanathan was on Friday, 13 December, appointed as Expenditure Secretary. The post was lying vacant since October, the appointments are a part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre.
Somanathan is a 1987-batch IAS office and is currently serving in his cadre state Tamil Nadu. He has been appointed as the Expenditure Secretary, a Personnel Ministry order said. Former Expenditure Secretary Girish Chandra Murmu was in October appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
In another appointment, Ravi Mittal has been named Information and Broadcasting Secretary in place of Amit Khare. Mittal, a 1986-batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, is at present Special Secretary, the Department of Financial Services.
Khare will now serve as Secretary, the Department of Higher Education, in place of R Subrahmanyam who has been appointed as Secretary, the Department of Social Justice & Empowerment.
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