AMN / NEW DELHI
Senior IAS officer Ajay Narayan Jha has been appointed as new Finance Secretary in the government. He was currently serving as Secretary, Expenditure.
Prime Minister Modi-led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has cleared AN Jha’s appointment to the post after incumbent Hasmukh Adhia, a 1981-batch Gujarat cadre officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), retired on November 30.
Fifty-nine-year-old Jha is a 1982-batch IAS officer of Manipur Tripura cadre.
An alumnus of St Stephens College from where he passed with first class in Graduation and post graduation in History, Jha is a recipient of World Bank scholarship to pursue Masters in Economic Policy Management from McGill University in Canada.
He is also an MPhil in public administration from Delhi University.