Subhash Garg Will Replace Shaktikanta Das As India’s Economic Secretary
Subhash Garg, executive director of World Bank, will replace Shaktikanta Das as the economic affairs secretary in the finance ministry. Das retired on May 31 this year.
Along with Garg, 15 new secretaries have been appointed to various central government departments as part of a major top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected on Wednesday, the Department of Personnel and Training said in a statement.
Garg has been with the World Bank Group as an executive director representing Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka. He has previously served as a director of the Economic Affairs director, and also as a joint secretary in the Department of Expenditure of the Ministry of Finance. He has also held positions in the state government of Rajasthan.
The other key appointments are as follows, according to the Department of Personnel and Training:
- NK Sinha, the secretary of Ministry of Culture, has been made secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
- Ajay Mittal, whom NK Sinha is replacing in the Information and Broadcast Ministry, has been handed charge as secretary of the Department of Personnel and Training after the incumbent BP Sharma's term comes to an end on June 30.
- Avinash Srivastava, the current secretary of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, and Jagdish Prasad Meena, the current Consumer Affairs secretary will swap places.
- Yudhvir Singh Malik, the chairman of National Highways Authority of India, takes over the Road Transport and Highways secretary.
- Deepak Kumar has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Highways Authority of India. Kumar was earlier the director general of the Employee's State Insurance Corporation.
- Durga Shanker Mishra has been appointed a full-time secretary at the Ministry of Urban Development. He earlier had held additional charge at the same ministry.
- Arun Kumar Panda will be secretary of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. He earlier held additional charge at the Department of Health and Family Welfare.
- Ravi Kant will take over as the secretary of the Ministry of Shipping.
- Ajay Prakash Sawhney will take over as the I.T Ministry secretary, from earlier holding additional charge at the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
- Ajay Kumar Bhalla takes over as the secretary of the Ministry of Power. He was earlier the director general of foreign trade.
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