New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Tuhin Kanta Pandey was on Saturday designated as the new finance secretary, according to an official order.
Pandey is a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Odisha cadre. Currently, he is serving as Secretary of the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM).
Pandey is MA in Economics from Punjab University, Chandigarh and MBA from UK. He has worked in various capacities in Government of Odisha and Government of India. In early part of his career, he worked as Executive Director & Managing Director of Odisha State Finance Corporation (OSFC) and Odisha Small Industries Corporation (OSIC) respectively.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved designating Pandey as the finance secretary, the order issued by the personnel ministry said.
The vacancy was created following the appointment of TV Somanathan as the Cabinet secretary last month.
As per the convention, the senior-most secretary in the Union finance ministry is designated as the finance secretary.
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