Centre Appoints IAS Officer Tuhin Kanta Pandey As Finance Secretary

New Delhi: The Centre on Saturday appointed senior bureaucrat Tuhin Kanta Pandey as the new finance secretary.

“The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved designating Shri Tuhin Kanta Pandey, IAS (OR:87), Secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management, Ministry of Finance as Finance Secretary,” an order issued by Department of Personnel read. 

Pandey takes over from TV Somanathan, who has been appointed as India's new Cabinet Secretary, succeeding Rajiv Gauba in August. Previously, Pandey served as the Secretary of the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer from the 1987 batch of the Odisha cadre and assumed the role of DIPAM Secretary in October 2019.