Vivek Chaturvedi appointed new CBIC Chairman after Sanjay Agarwal’s superannuation

The appointment committee of the cabinet has approved the appointment of Vivek Chaturvedi, a 1990 batch officer of Indian revenue services (C&IT) as the new Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC)

His appointment follows the superannuation of Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, who superannuated Friday.

He is currently serving as member, CBIC board(tax policy and legal) joining the board after superannuation of Vivek Ranjan in August this year.


Prior to that Chaturvedi has served as the Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management (DGARM), and took many initiatives in data analytics to curb tax evasion, which helped the department to move to data and evidence based tax evasion.

He has served as Principal Director General of Vigilance and Chief Vigilance Officer for the board.