April 1 Reshuffle: Know more about new entrants in PMO

Tarun Bajaj (left) in Singapore (File photo)

ON MARCH 31 and April 1, the appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC) headed by the prime minister engineered a major reshuffle in the PMO by bringing in five IAS officers including one from the finance ministry and two from the DoPT and paved the way for the exit of four existing PMO officials. Whereas Odisha cadre IAS Ms Anu Garg was shifted as joint secretary to the ministry of textiles, DEA joint secretary Tarun Bajaj was brought into the PMO. More about the men and women at the entry and exit gates:

Know about "public health expert" & new PMO JS Anu Garg; Atheeq joins Bank

Anu Garg

IN A minor reshuffle in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Anu Garg, a 1991 batch Orissa cadre IAS currently working in department of health and family welfare, has been appointed as joint secretary in PMO. Armed with a decade-long association with health issues both at the state and the Centre, Ms Garg will be a resource on public health issues in the PMO in government’s social drive ahead of the 2014 general elections. The lateral shift of Ms Garg was necessitated…