Ensuing major reshuffle from Finance to Power, Ex-Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg opts for voluntary retirement

New Delhi, July 25: Following the shift to Ministry of Power from the Finance Secretary’s post, senior IAS officer Subhash Chandra Garg has has applied for voluntary retirement, serving a notice period upto three months until his application is accepted.

 

 

Garg is expected to formally take over as power secretary later in the evening and will continue in the new post till a decision is taken on his request.

 

The 1983 batch IAS officer’s tenure at the finance ministry was cut short in the bureaucratic reshuffle late on Wednesday evening that transferred or upgraded 24 senior government officials.

 

Atanu Chakraborty, who was secretary of the department of investment and public asset management, was been appointed as Garg’s replacement to head the economic affairs department. He is a Gujarat cadre officer of the 1985 batch.