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Key Departments Get New Heads in Bureaucratic Rejig
Hindustan Times Lucknow
|April 19, 2025
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet Has Approved the Appointments and Transfers of 18 Senior Bureaucrats
NEW DELHI: Senior IAS officer Arvind Shrivastava was on Friday appointed the new revenue secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre.
An order, issued by the department of personnel and training (DoPT), said that the appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC) approved the appointments and transfers of 18 senior bureaucrats.
Shrivastava, a 1994-batch Karnataka cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, is currently working as the additional secretary in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
"The appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC) has approved Arvind Shrivastava's appointment as secretary, department of revenue, ministry of finance," the order said.
The current civil aviation secretary, Vumlunmang Vualnam, who is a 1992-batch Manipur cadre officer, has been appointed as the secretary in the department of expenditure in the ministry of finance, replacing Manoj Govil upon his appointment as secretary (coordination), cabinet secretariat.
This story is from the April 19, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Lucknow.
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