Senior IAS officer, Sanjeev Malhotra was appointed as the next Revenue Secretary in the Ministry of Finance on Thursday, 1 December. Malhotra succeeded Tarun Bajaj, who superannuated on November 30.
A 1990-batch IAS officer of the Rajasthan cadre, Malhotra was working as an officer on special duty (OSD) in the revenue department since October this year.
Prior to that, he was serving as the secretary in Department of Financial Services (DFS). Malhotra takes over as the top bureaucrat in the revenue department at a time when the government is preparing for the Union Budget 2023-24 to be tabled in Parliament on February 1.
