NEW DELHI(Reuters) – India on Saturday appointed its former central bank chief Shaktikanta Das as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s principal secretary, according to a government notice.
The appointment comes after Das finished his second term at the helm of the Reserve Bank of India in December last year, where he oversaw monetary policy, debt and forex markets, along with financial sector regulation for six years.
Das, a former bureaucrat, became the first non-economist in nearly three decades to head India’s central bank in 2018.
He will be Modi’s second principal secretary, with a tenure running through the Prime Minister’s entire term or until further orders, the notice said.
Pramod Kumar Mishra, also a former bureaucrat, has been Modi’s principal secretary since September 2019.
(Reporting by Shivangi Acharya; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
