Sanjay Kothari appointed as Secretary to new President !

Sanjay Kothari, Chairman of Public Enterprises Selection Board, has been appointed as Secretary to the new President Ram Nath Kovind.

Senior Journalist Ashok Malik has been named as Press Secretary to Kovind, said an order issued today by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).

“Senior Gujarat-cadre Forest Service Officer Bharat Lal will be the Joint Secretary to Kovind,” the order said.

“The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, headed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has cleared these appointments for an initial period of two years,” it added.

Kothari, a 1978-batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, had retired in June last year as DoPT Secretary. In November 2016, he was appointed as the Chief of the government’s head-hunter, the PESB.

Malik is at present Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation–a policy think tank.

Lal, a 1988-batch officer of Indian Forest Service, is at present Resident Commissioner of Gujarat government in Delhi.