PM Modi seems to prefer bureaucrats from the 1980 batch

October 04, 2014 17:34

Out of 86 secretaries in the government, 38 are from the 1980 IAS batch.

Sunil Arora has been entrusted with the skill development department and has been interacting with the PMO on a day-to-day basis.

Amitabh Kant Secretary from Industrial Policy Promotion coordinated for the the 'Make In India' programme. Gurdial Singh Sandhu, Financial Services Secretary, coordinated for Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana. Modi's smart cities project is designed by Shankar Aggarwal.

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