NPPA finds new Chairman in IAS Kamlesh Kumar Pant
New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Kamlesh Kumar Pant has been appointed as chairperson of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) as part of senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Wednesday.
Pant, a 1993 batch IAS officer, is currently posted in his cadre state Himachal Pradesh.
He has been appointed in place of Shubhra Singh, who has been repatriated to her cadre state Rajasthan, according to an order of the personnel ministry.
Amrit Lal Meena, a 1989 batch lAS officer of Bihar cadre, has been appointed as Additional Secretary (Logistics), Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Senior bureaucrats Sudhir Garg and Jayant Sinha have been appointed as Additional Secretary, National Disaster Management Authority; and Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, respectively.
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