The outgoing Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi was appointed Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), while former Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Secretary Sunil Arora was appointed Election Commissioner to fill the vacancy in the three-member Election Commission. Both are former IAS officers of the Rajasthan cadre.
Mr. Mehrishi completed his two-year stint as Home Secretary on Thursday and handed over the charge to Rajive Gauba. Mr. Mehrishi has been one of the most favourite bureaucrats of the current administration, which had brought him from Rajasthan as Secretary, Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance immediately after the government took over in 2014.
Subsequently, he was appointed Home Secretary for two years on the day he superannuated from the Ministry of Finance in 2015. Rajiv Kumar, a 1984 batch IAS and currently Establishment Officer, was made Secretary, Financial Services, in the Ministry of Finance. Asha Ram Sihag was shifted from Cabinet Secretariat to the Ministry of Heavy Industries as Secretary.
