Know Your Bureaucrat: New Information and Broadcasting secretary Ajay Mittal

1982 BATCH Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS Ajay Mittal has taken charge as the information and broadcasting secretary replacing Sunil Arora who retired on April 30. Usually, information and broadcasting secretary is someone who has been working in government of India or the one already known in Delhi. So naturally, when Mittal’s name was announced after the approval of the appointments committee of the cabinet, many in the corridors wanted to know who this officer is. And here it goes:

Secretary Reshuffle: New Information and Broadcasting, environment and expenditure secretaries named

IN A major secretary level reshuffle at the Centre, the government on Tuesday announced appointment of Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS Ajay Mittal as new secretary in the ministry of information and broadcasting and shifting of environment secretary Ashok Lavasa as secretary in the department of expenditure under the ministry of finance. More than new appointments, the Tuesday’s reshuffle was more of swapping of secretaries and their transfer from one ministry to another. Here are 14 such secretary-level appointments: