Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth gets six-month extension

December 05, 2014 14:45

Meanwhile, Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth was today given a six-month extension in service, his third after he was appointed to the top bureaucratic post.

His extension was approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Seth, a 1974-batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, had taken over as Cabinet Secretary on June 14, 2011 with a fixed tenure upto June 13, 2013. The UPA government had extended his tenure by a year.

The Modi-government had given six-month extension to Seth in June. He was due to retire on December 13.

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