Janjivan Bureau / NEW DELHI: Sanjay Kothari, chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board, has been appointed secretary and senior journalist Ashok Malik press secretary to President-elect Ram Nath Kovind.
Senior Gujarat-cadre forest service officer Bharat Lal will be joint secretary to Kovind, said an order issued today by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved these appointments for an initial period of two years, it said.
Kothari, a 1978-batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, retired in June last year as DoPT secretary. He was in November 2016 appointed as the chief of the government’s head-hunting agency, the PESB.
Kothari has served in various positions both at the Centre and state cadre.
Senior journalist Ashok Malik, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, will be the new Press Secretary to the first citizen of the country.He is head of the ORF’s Neighbourhood Regional Studies Initiative.
