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NEW DELHI, Aug 19: Senior IAS officer Rajesh Verma, holding the post of Secretary in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, was on Thursday appointed as Secretary to President Droupadi Murmu, an order issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions said. The appointment of Verma, a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Odisha cadre, was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.
The 58-year-old bureaucrat had joined the Centre in 2019 after serving as Principal Secretary to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. He takes over from Kapil Dev Tripathi, a 1980-batch retired IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre. Tripathi was appointed to the post in April 2020 to then-President Ram Nath Kovind.
Verma, born on September 1, 1964, has earlier worked at the Centre in various capacities, including as Additional and Special Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture. He has also served in Rajasthan twice on inter-cadre deputation. |
