Union Home Secretary AK Bhalla gets additional key department’s charge
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News November 30,2023
The union government has given the additional charge of the post of Secretary, Department of Border Management to Ajay Kumar Bhalla, lAS Home Secretary with immediate effect.
He replaces Atal Dulloo, secretary Border Management.
Bhalla is a 1984-batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and serving as Secretary of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) since August 23, 2019.Prior to joining as Secretary of MHA, he was serving as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the same Ministry. His previous assignments include Secretary of the Ministry of Power from July 2017 to July 2019, Director General of Foreign Trade, Additional Secretary of Department of Commerce, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Coal and as Director (Ports) in the Department of Shipping among others.
