Disinvestment Secretary Aradhana Johri shunted

December 29, 2015 10:46

Senior IAS officer Aradhana Johri has been shifted out as Disinvestment Secretary to Cabinet Secretariat and Sanjay Mitra has been named as the new Road Transport and Highways Secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle.

Johri, a 1980 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been replaced by Neeraj Kumar Gupta, Special Secretary in Department of Public Enterprises.

Gupta has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Disinvestment vice Johri, on her appointment as chairperson of National Authority for Chemical Weapons Convention under Cabinet Secretariat, an order issued by Department of Personnel and Training said without mentioning the reason for Johri's ouster.

Whereas Mitra, who is presently working in his cadre state West Bengal, will be the new secretary of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. He will take over from Vijay Chhibber, who superannuates on Thursday, it said.

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