Finance Secy S C Garg moved to Power, Atanu Chakraborty gets Eco Affairs

Top bureaucrats across 12 ministries, departments and agencies reshuffled

In the first major bureaucratic reshuffle in its second term, the Narendra Modi government on Wednesday transferred Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg to the power ministry while appointing Atanu Chakraborty as economic affairs secretary. He was in charge of the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (Dipam).

In other appointments, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the name of Anil Kumar Khachi of the Himachal Pradesh cadre as Dipam secretary, according to an official notification. 

The reshuffle in the finance ministry comes less than three weeks after the Union Budget was presented in the Lok Sabha and a