In a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected on Wednesday, Subhash C Garg, executive director at the World Bank, was named the new department of economic affairs secretary, a post that had fallen vacant after the retirement of Shaktikanta Das.
Aruna Sundararajan will be the new telecom secretary. She is at present secretary in the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY). Ajay Prakash Sawhney will be the new MeitY secretary in place of Sundararajan.
Ajay Kumar Bhalla will be new power secretary. He is at present director-general of foreign trade. Bhalla, a 1984 batch IAS officer, will take over the new