Subhash C Garg: Know the man who replaces Shaktikanta Das as new DEA secy

DEA is currently headed on an interim basis by Corporate Affairs Secretary Tapan Ray

The Centre, late on Wednesday, announced a large-scale bureaucratic reshuffle. A notable announcement was of Subhash Chandra Garg as economic affairs secretary. A 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service officer, from the Rajasthan cadre, he’s currently World Bank executive director for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka.

That stint, started in November 2014, will come handy as he takes charge of a department which is responsible, among other things, for multilateral institutions and economic relations with other countries. The charge also includes Budget-making, deciding on borrowing with the Reserve Bank of India, investment, infrastructure and capital markets. Till May 30, it was