New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Ajay Kumar Bhalla (IAS), who is currently serving as Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has been given additional charge as Secretary of the Department of Boarder Management. According to an order issued from the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), Bhalla has been given additional charge of the post with immediate effect and till the appointment of a regular incumbent or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
Bhalla is a 1984-batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and serving as Secretary of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) since August 23, 2019.
Bhalla holds a Masters in Botany (M Sc) from the University of Delhi. He has also done an MBA from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and M Phil in social sciences from the Punjab University. Bhalla, a senior bureaucrat, has handled various important positions in the union government. Prior to joining as Secretary of MHA, he was serving as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the same Ministry. His previous assignments include Secretary of the Ministry of Power from July 2017 to July 2019, Director General of Foreign Trade, Additional Secretary of Department of Commerce, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Coal and as Director (Ports) in the Department of Shipping among others.
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