Tuhin Pandey Appointed Revenue Secretary,
Arunish Chawla Takes Over as DIPAM Secretary
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It believed
that the pushy style of revenue administration does not work in the Budget
making, thus the Revenue Secy Chawla had to make way
for his senior Tuhin Pandey to take over.
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The
Revenue Secy position has seen four faces in recent
times in the midst of budget making process!
In
a surprise development, the Government has swapped Tuhin
Kanta Pandey for Arunish Chawla
as the new Revenue Secretary. Chawla will take Pandey’s place in the Department
of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM).
Pandey
will continue to be designated as Finance Secretary. At the same time, Chawla will
also have the additional responsibility of Secretary in the Public Enterprises Department
in the Culture Ministry, which was earlier held by Pandey, according to an order
approved by the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet (ACC).
Pandey
is the IAS officer from the Odisha cadre and is credited with successfully completing
the long-pending sale of the national carrier Air India and overseeing the listing
of the national insurer, the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). He has a
master’s degree in economics from Punjab University and an MBA from the UK. In his
career as a bureaucrat, the IAS officer has served in various capacities both in
Odisha and at the central level
Chawla
was appointed as Revenue Secretary on December 25. 1992-batch Indian Administrative
Service (IAS) officer of the Bihar cadre, Chawla served as the Secretary in the
Department of Pharmaceuticals in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers since
November 1, 2023.
Before
serving as Secretary in the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Chawla served as the
Managing Director of the Metro Rail Project Patna; and on Foreign Assignment through
the Department of Economic Affairs as the Senior Economist, International Monetary
Fund; Minister (Economic), Embassy of India in Washington DC; and also as Joint Secretary in the Department of Expenditure, Ministry
of Finance. Chawla also did his Masters and Doctorate in Economics from the London
School of Economics.