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Senior IAS officer Arunish Chawla is Appointed Revenue Secretary
Senior IAS officer Arunish Chawla, of the Bihar cadre's 1992 batch, is appointed revenue secretary, filling the vacancy created by Sanjay Malhotra's new role as RBI governor. Several other bureaucratic appointments were made, including Vineet Joshi as higher education secretary and Neelam Shammi Rao as textiles secretary.
Senior bureaucrat Arunish Chawla has been appointed the revenue secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Wednesday. Chawla, a 1992 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Bihar cadre, is currently the pharmaceuticals secretary. He has been appointed secretary, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, according to a personnel ministry order.
The post of revenue secretary felt vacant after incumbent Sanjay Malhotra was appointed the governor of the Reserve Bank of India earlier this month.
Chawla will continue to hold the additional charge of secretary, Ministry of Culture till the appointment of a regular incumbent, it said.
Amit Agrawal, chief executive officer of Unique Identification Authority of India, will be the new pharmaceuticals secretary in place of Chawla.
Manipur chief secretary Vineet Joshi has been appointed as the higher education secretary. A 1992 batch IAS officer, Joshi was appointed Manipur chief secretary in May last year. He was then serving as the additional secretary in the Department of Higher Education under the Education Ministry.
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