<p class="title">A N Jha, Secretary, Expenditure, has been appointed as new Finance Secretary, a government order said Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has cleared Jha's appointment to the post after incumbent Hasmukh Adhia, a 1981-batch Gujarat cadre officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), retired on November 30.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fifty-nine-year-old Ajay Narayan Jha is a 1982-batch IAS officer of Manipur Tripura cadre.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An alumnus of St Stephens College from where he passed with first class in Graduation and post graduation in History, Jha is a recipient of World Bank scholarship to pursue Masters in Economic Policy Management from McGill University in Canada.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He is also an MPhil in public administration from Delhi University.</p>
<p class="title">A N Jha, Secretary, Expenditure, has been appointed as new Finance Secretary, a government order said Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has cleared Jha's appointment to the post after incumbent Hasmukh Adhia, a 1981-batch Gujarat cadre officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), retired on November 30.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Fifty-nine-year-old Ajay Narayan Jha is a 1982-batch IAS officer of Manipur Tripura cadre.</p>.<p class="bodytext">An alumnus of St Stephens College from where he passed with first class in Graduation and post graduation in History, Jha is a recipient of World Bank scholarship to pursue Masters in Economic Policy Management from McGill University in Canada.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He is also an MPhil in public administration from Delhi University.</p>