Senior bureaucrat Arvind Shrivastava was on Tuesday given a two-year extension as Additional Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), based on a Personnel Ministry order.
Shrivastava, a 1994-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Karnataka cadre, was on August 30, 2019 appointed as the Joint Secretary in the PMO.
He was promoted as the Additional Secretary on March 25, 2021.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has accredited the extension in Shrivastava’s tenure for a interval of two years from May 10, 2023, it stated.
