Outgoing Union home secretary Rajiv Mehrishi will be the next Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) as the Centre on Thursday announced a reshuffle of 17 senior bureaucrats.
The Centre also filled up a vacancy in the Election Commission with the appointment of former information and broadcasting secretary Sunil Arora as election commissioner. Rajiv Kumar was appointed secretary in department of financial services (DFS), while Anita Karwal was named CBSE chairperson.
Along with Mehrishi, who retired on Thursday, the government’s audit watchdog also got a new deputy CAG, IA&AS officer Ranjan Kumar Ghose.
With the post of CAG, Mehrishi has now held three positions of utmost importance in the Indian bureaucracy — economic affairs secretary, home secretary and now the new auditor general. His appointment also put to rest speculations of him taking over the governor’s post from NN Vohra.
Mehrishi will assume charge on September 24 after the incumbent CAG retires. He will be the second Union home secretary after TN Chaturvedi to become the CAG — a constitutional post.
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