New Delhi: The Government on Tuesday designated Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey as the new Finance Secretary, according to a Personnel Ministry order.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved designating Pandey, a 1984 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre, as Finance Secretary, it said.
The senior-most bureaucrat among all secretaries in the finance ministry is designated as the Finance secretary.
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Pandey, currently the Revenue Secretary in the Union Finance Ministry, will replace incumbent Rajiv Kumar.
Ajay Bhushan Pandey was the former head of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the nodal agency of Government of India responsible for implementing Aadhaar.
(Inputs from Agencies)
