NEW DELHI: Senior bureaucrat Arvind Shrivastava has been appointed as the new Revenue Secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Friday. Shrivastava, a 1994 batch Karnataka cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, is currently working as Additional Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved Shrivastava’s appointment as Secretary, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, a Personnel Ministry order said.
Civil Aviation Secretary Vumlunmang Vualnam has been named as Secretary, Department of Expenditure, it said.
He succeeds Manoj Govil, who has been appointed as Secretary (Coordination), Cabinet Secretariat.
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.
