IAS Saurabh Garg given additional charge as Secretary, MoSPI; IAS Vivek Aggarwal receives 6-month extension as Director, FIU-India

New Delhi: The Central Government has given IAS officer Saurabh Garg the additional charge of Secretary of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). The decision came through an order issued by the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) on Tuesday.

Garg will serve in this post till the appointment of a regular incumbent or further directives. He is a 1991-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Odisha cadre. Garg is currently the Secretary in the Department of Social Justice & Empowerment.

IAS officer Vivek Aggarwal has received a six-month extension on his additional charge as Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit – India (FIU-India). He is currently serving as an Additional Secretary in the Department of Revenue under the Ministry of Finance.

Aggarwal is from the 1994 batch, from the Madhya Pradesh cadre. He has served as the Director of FIU-India since January 2023. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), as per an order from the DOPT, approved the Department of Revenue’s proposal to extend Vivek Aggarwal’s (IAS) tenure.

The Financial Intelligence Unit – India works within the Government of India’s Department of Revenue. It collects financial intelligence regarding crimes covered by the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

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