New Delhi: The Union government on Friday gave a six-month extension to Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth, who was due to retire on December 13.
This is his third extension since becoming India’s top bureaucrat. The appointments committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the extension, the department of personnel and training announced.
Mr Seth, a 1974-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, took over as Cabinet secretary on June 14, 2011. His fixed two-year term was due to end June 13, 2013, but the UPA government extended his tenure by a year.
The Modi government also granted him a six-month extension soon after coming to power. Mr Seth’s predecessor, K.M. Chandrasekar, who retired in June 2011, got two year-long extensions in 2009 and 2010.
