Rolling out the carpets.. Subhash Chandra Garg chairs as the new Finance Secretary..!

NewsBharati    09-Mar-2019
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New Delhi, March 9: In the wake of Cabinet committee’s decision approving the appointment, the Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg was designated as the Finance Secretary on Friday.
 
 
As per the convention, the senior-most among the five secretaries in the Finance Ministry is designated as the Finance Secretary. Garg, aged 58, a 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, has been working as the Secretary in Department of Economic Affairs since June 2017.
While Ajay Bhushan Pandey being the Revenue Secretary, Rajiv Kumar Secretary to the Department of Financial Services, Atanu Chakraborty serves as the Secretary in Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) with Girish Chandra Murmu serving as the Expenditure Secretary
Meanwhile, former finance secretary Ajay Narayan Jha superannuated on February 28, having taken over as member of the 15th Finance Commission.