Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey. File
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With a little over three weeks to go for the Union Budget on February 1, the Centre on Wednesday (January 8, 2024) shifted the recently appointed Revenue Secretary Arunish Chawla to the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), and entrusted Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey with the Revenue Department.

Mr. Chawla had taken charge as Revenue Secretary on December 26, taking over from Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth who held additional charge of the department since incumbent Sanjay Malhotra was appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India last month.

The Finance Secretary who was also entrusted with steering DIPAM and the Department of Public Enterprises, will now hand over charge of those two departments to Mr. Chawla, who has also been assigned additional charge of Secretary in the Culture Ministry, till a regular incumbent is appointed, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet decided.