<p>New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Tuhin Kanta Pandey was on Saturday designated as the new finance secretary, according to an official order.</p><p>Pandey, a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Odisha cadre, is currently the secretary of the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM).</p><p>The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved designating Pandey as the finance secretary, the order issued by the personnel ministry said.</p>.Senior IAS officer T V Somanathan to be next Cabinet Secretary .<p>The vacancy was created following the appointment of T V Somanathan as the Cabinet secretary last month.</p><p>As per the convention, the senior-most secretary in the Union finance ministry is designated as the finance secretary. </p>
<p>New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Tuhin Kanta Pandey was on Saturday designated as the new finance secretary, according to an official order.</p><p>Pandey, a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Odisha cadre, is currently the secretary of the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM).</p><p>The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved designating Pandey as the finance secretary, the order issued by the personnel ministry said.</p>.Senior IAS officer T V Somanathan to be next Cabinet Secretary .<p>The vacancy was created following the appointment of T V Somanathan as the Cabinet secretary last month.</p><p>As per the convention, the senior-most secretary in the Union finance ministry is designated as the finance secretary. </p>