The Union government has assigned the additional charge of Revenue Secretary to Ajay Seth, according to an official statement on December 10.
Seth, who is also the Economic Affairs Secretary at the finance ministry, has been assigned the additional charge with immediate effect till the appointment of a regular incumbent or until further orders, whichever is earlier, the statement added.
The additional charge for Seth comes after the government named Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra as the new governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on December 9.
Sanjay Malhotra, 56, will take over from Shaktikanta Das on December 11 as the 26th Governor of RBI. He was serving as the Revenue Secretary and is a 1990-batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre.
Meanwhile, Seth, is a 1987 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Karnataka cadre. He assumed charge as Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance in April 2021.
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