Big reshuffle in Finance Ministry, Tarun Bajaj shifted to revenue department
Big reshuffle in Finance Ministry, Tarun Bajaj shifted to revenue department
Ajay Seth will replace Tarun Bajaj as the new Economic Affairs Secretary. Bajaj has shifted to the revenue department.
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UPDATED: April 6, 2021 15:15 IST
Ajay Seth will replace Tarun Bajaj as the new economic affairs secretary. (Photo: PTI/Representational image)
In a major reshuffle in the Finance Ministry, Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj has been shifted to the revenue department and Ajay Seth has been appointed in his place. Bajaj has been made the Revenue Secretary.
Several other bureaucratic posts were reshuffled on Wednesday as per a notification issued by the government’s Ministry of Personnel after approval by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet.
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Ajay Seth was appointed the new Economic Affairs Secretary
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A Namma Metro train moving on the extended Purple Line between Mysuru Road metro station and Kengeri metro station during the trial run on Tuesday.
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Ajay Seth was appointed the new Economic Affairs Secretary
IAS officer Ajay Seth, who had been serving as Managing Director of Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL), was on Tuesday appointed the new Economic Affairs Secretary. The appointment at the Centre came on the day BMRCL was carrying out a trial run on the eagerly-awaited extension of the Purple Line.
: Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 3:25 PM IST
Bureaucratic Reshuffle: Tarun Bajaj moved to Revenue dept; Bangalore Metro Rail Corpâs Ajai Seth now DEA secy
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Finance Ministry, Economic Affairs, Secretary Tarun Bajaj is now appointed as the revenue secretary. After the superannuation of Ajay Bhushan Pandey in February this year, Bajaj was given the additional charge of revenue secretary.
Replacing Bajaj as the secretary to the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) is the managing director of Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation, Ajai Seth. He has been serving in the state administration of Karnataka since 2008. He is a 1987 batch Karnataka-cadre IAS officer with a four-year stint as an advisor in Asian Development Bank.
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Private vaccine manufacturers Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech have sought ₹100 crore financial support from the government to boost capacity to meet demand as the vaccination programme is expanded.
Bajaj ruled out the imposition of another nationwide lockdown in the face of a second Covid wave
The government could help India’s vaccine makers get funding assistance from the International Finance Corporation or Asian Development Bank to lift capacity, said revenue and economic affairs secretary Tarun Bajaj.