Tarun Kapoor, Ex- Petroleum Secretary Appointed As Advisor To PM Modi

According to a government order, former petroleum secretary Tarun Kapoor has been appointed as an adviser to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

Highlights:

• On November 30, 2021, Kapoor, a 1987-batch IAS official from the Himachal Pradesh cadre, retired as secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural gas.

• Mr. Tarun Kapoor has been appointed as an advisor to the Prime Minister in the PM's Office, in the rank and scale of Secretary to the Government of India, for two years from starting by the Cabinet Appointments Committee.

• Both senior bureaucrats, Hari Ranjan Rao and Atish Chandra have been appointed as additional secretaries in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

• Rao's Bihar cadre classmate Chandra is currently the chairman and managing director (CMD) of the Food Corporation of India's food and public distribution department.