Financial Services Secretary Sanjay Malhotra will be the new Revenue Secretary. He has been appointed as an Officer on Special Duty in the Department of Revenue. The officer will take over as the Revenue Secretary after Tarun Bajaj completes his term on Nov. 30, 2022.
Vivek Joshi, Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs will be the new Secretary, Department of Financial Services in place of Malhotra.
An IAS officer of the 1990 batch, Sanjay Malhotra, is an IIT-Kanpur alumnus and has a masters degree in public policy from Princeton University.
Malhotra will be responsible for augmenting tax collections without overreach at a time when the global economy is facing headwinds and India is staring at mounting food, fuel and fertiliser subsidy burden.
Prior to joining as secretary in the department of financial services on February 8, 2022, Malhotra was chairman and managing director of REC Ltd.
