Subhash Chandra Garg, the economic affairs secretary who was designated Finance Secretary just a little over four months back, was shifted out as power secretary in a major bureaucratic reshuffle ordered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. Garg was the senior-most bureaucrat in the Finance Ministry and a key figure associated with the maiden budget of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Chakraborty is a Gujarat cadre IAS officer of the 1985 batch. The practice at North Block is to designate the senior-most of the five secretaries in the finance ministry as the finance secretary. Bhalla is an Assam Meghalaya cadre IAS officer of 1984-batch,Ravi Capoor, a 1986 batch Assam and Meghalaya cadre IAS officer, has been appointed as secretary, ministry of textiles.

Source: Hindustan Times July 24, 2019 16:52 UTC