AN Jha Is The New Finance Secretary

AN Jha, Secretary (Expenditure), has been appointed as new Finance Secretary, a government order said on Monday.

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03 Dec 2018, 10:32 PM IST

The South Block of the Central Secretariat buildings, left, and the North Block, right, which houses the Ministries of Finance and Home Affairs are seen through the rear window of a car (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)

AN Jha, Secretary (Expenditure), has been designated as the new Finance Secretary, a government order said on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has cleared Jha's appointment to the post after incumbent Hasmukh Adhia, a 1981-batch Gujarat cadre officer of the Indian Administrative Service, retired on Nov. 30.

Fifty-nine-year old Ajay Narayan 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.