Finance Ministry gets new secretaries; Senior bureaucrat Arvind Shrivastava named Revenue Secy

As part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet named three new secretaries to the Finance Ministry with IAS officer Arvind Shrivastava, additional secretary at Prime Minister's Office, as the new Revenue Secretary.

Shrivastava, a 1994 batch Karnataka cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, is currently working as Additional Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office. Civil Aviation Secretary Vumlunmang Vualnam has been named as Secretary, Department of Expenditure. He succeeds Manoj Govil, who has been appointed as Secretary (Coordination), Cabinet Secretariat.

Additionally, the committee has appointed IAS officer Anuradha Thakur as Officer on Special Duty, Department of Economic.


Vivek Aggarwal, a 1994 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as Secretary, Ministry of Culture. Aggarwal is currently Additional Secretary in the Department of Revenue. He is also holding the charge of Director, Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND).

Other senior officers have been appointed to key central government departments as part of the bureaucratic rejig.

Here's full list of the shuffle;

Name	Designation	Ministry/Department
Meeta R. Lochan	Secretary	National Commission for Backward Classes, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
Manoj Govil	Secretary (Coordination)	Cabinet Secretariat
Vandana Gurnani	Secretary	Ministry of Labour & Employment
Rajit Punhani	Secretary	Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Vumlunmang Vualnam	Secretary	Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance
Nikunja Bihari Dhal	Secretary	Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
Anuradha Thakur	Secretary	Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance
Rajesh Agarwal	Special Secretary	Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Arvind Shrivastava	Secretary	Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance
Vivek Aggarwal	Secretary	Ministry of Culture
Santosh Kumar Sarangi	Secretary	Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Pallavi Jain Govil	Secretary	Department of Youth Affairs, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Nidhi Chhibber	Officer on Special Duty (in rank of Secretary)	Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Hari Ranjan Rao	Secretary	Department of Sports, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports