T K Pandey appointed new disinvestment secy; Ashok Malik advisor to MEA

Some disinvestments, including strategic sale of BPCL, are on the cards. The Cabinet has okayed the new policy to make Dipam as the nodal department for disinvestment

Tuhin Kanta Pandey, a 1987 batch IAS officer from the Odisha cadre, has been named secretary at the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (Dipam). 

Ashok Malik, Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, a private think tank, has been appointed policy advisor in the Ministry of External Affairs, with the rank of additional secretary. He was earlier press advisor to the President of India. Pandey will replace Anil Kumar Khachi, who will go back to his parent cadre of Himachal Pradesh, on personal grounds, stated the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

 It had, only last week, assigned additional responsibility for Dipam to