SDMC gets new commissioner

New Delhi: Senior IAS officer Gyanesh Bharti has been appointed as the commissioner of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation. Bharti, an IAS officer of the Union Territory cadre, belonged to 1998 batch. His appointment as SDMC commissioner will come into effect from the date of assumption of the charge, according to an order of the Union Home Ministry. Bharti was earlier posted as Joint Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat and also served as a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The 1998-batch IAS officer was in July this year repatriated to his parent cadre prematurely by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet after a receiving a proposal from the Ministry of Home Affairs.