Ajay Narayan Jha Is The New Finance Secretary

A N Jha, Secretary, Expenditure, has been appointed as new Finance Secretary, a government order said on Monday, December 3. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has cleared Jha's appointment to the post after incumbent Hasmukh Adhia, a 1981-batch Gujarat cadre officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), retired on November 30.

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Fifty-nine-year-old Ajay Narayan Jha is a 1982-batch IAS officer of Manipur Tripura cadre.

An alumnus of St Stephens College from where he passed with first class in Graduation and post graduation in History, Jha is a recipient of World Bank scholarship to pursue Masters in Economic Policy Management from McGill University in Canada. 

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He is also an MPhil in public administration from Delhi University.