Forward of Union Finances, Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey entrusted with Income division

Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey. File
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With just a little over three weeks to go for the Union Finances on February 1, the Centre on Wednesday (January 8, 2024) shifted the just lately appointed Income Secretary Arunish Chawla to the Division of Funding and Public Asset Administration (DIPAM), and entrusted Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey with the Income Division.

Mr. Chawla had taken cost as Income Secretary on December 26, taking up from Financial Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth who held further cost of the division since incumbent Sanjay Malhotra was appointed Governor of the Reserve Financial institution of India final month.

The Finance Secretary who was additionally entrusted with steering DIPAM and the Division of Public Enterprises, will now hand over cost of these two departments to Mr. Chawla, who has additionally been assigned further cost of Secretary within the Tradition Ministry, until an everyday incumbent is appointed, the Appointments Committee of the Cupboard determined.