New Delhi: Sanjay Malhotra (IAS) has assumed charge as Secretary of the Department of Revenue under the Ministry of Finance on Thursday. Prior to his joining as Secretary of the Department of Revenue, he was serving as Secretary of the Department of Financial Services under the same Ministry. This information has been shared by the Ministry of Finance in a tweet on Thursday.

Malhotra is a 1990-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Rajasthan cadre. Prior to joining the Ministry of Finance, he had served as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Power and CMD of REC Limited.

He is an Engineering Graduate in Computer Science (B Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He has varied experience spanning almost 32 years in the state & central governments and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in various capacities in sectors including power, finance, taxation, e-governance and mines. As Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Power, he was looking after transmission, distribution, reforms and restructuring, operation and monitoring, national electricity policy, tariff policy, CERC, APTEL, JERCs, etc.

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