India, May 1 -- Arvind Shrivastava, a 1994-batch Indian Administrative Service officer of the Karnataka cadre, on Thursday assumed charge as secretary of the department of revenue under the Union finance ministry.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on April 18 appointed him as revenue secretary in a a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle, on a day it cleared the appointments and transfers of 18 senior bureaucrats.

Before the promotion, Shrivastava was working as an additional secretary (AS) in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), looking after personnel and general administration since March 25, 2021, according to government records. Before being elevated as an AS, he also worked as a joint secretary (JS) in the PMO since Septemb...