A N Jha is new Finance Secy

New Delhi: A N Jha, Secretary, Expenditure, has been appointed as new Finance Secretary, a government order said Monday. 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.

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