New Delhi, May 2 -- Senior bureaucrat Arvind Shrivastava on Thursday took charge as revenue secretary to the central government, according to an official statement.

Shrivastava's appointment was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on 18 April. A 1994-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Karnataka cadre, he was previously serving as additional secretary in the Prime Minister's Office.

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In his new role, Shrivastava will be responsible for overseeing the Centre's revenue collection targets, steering the strategy for direct and indirect tax administration, and supervising various investigative agencies under the D...