Raghu Menon appointed I&B Secretary

The Government today announced the appointment of Mr Raghu Menon as the new Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

An official press release said Mr Menon's appointment had been approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Mr Menon, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1974 batch (Nagaland  cadre), will succeed Ms Sushma Singh, who has retired. Culture Secretary Jawahar Sircar was holding additional charge of the post of Secretary, I&B for some time.

Mr Menon was till recently the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India, but he was removed suddenly in the last week of April his year. The government gave no reasons for his removal, but media reports at that time suggested that it was unhappy with him over the slow pace of the process of merger and integration between Air India and Indian Airlines.

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