NEW DELHI: The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet on Thursday appointed Labour Secretary Apurva Chandra as Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Other than labour, the portfolios he has handled include defence and the oil sector in particular where he was deputed for seven+ years.
A statement released by the Department of Personnel and training reads: “The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Shri Apurv Chandra, IAS (MH:88), Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, as Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcast.”
Apurv Chandra, 1988 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Maharashtra cadre, had assumed charge as the Labour Secretary in October 2020.
Prior to this, he was serving as Special Director General, Defence Acquisition, Ministry of Defence.
The IAS officer also spent more than seven years in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. He was actively involved in framing policies with regard to fuel supplies to industries, supply logistics, transportation, storage, and distribution of fuel products, along with work related to Natural Gas transportation infrastructure, setting up of city gas distribution companies, LNG import terminals, and allocation of gas to industries.
Chandra served on the Board of Directors of Maharatna PSU, GAIL (India) and Petronet LNG and served as the Joint Secretary of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education and Literacy from August 2011 to February 2013.
From 2013 to 2017, he was the Principal Secretary (Industries).
A civil engineer, Chandra obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and Masters in Structural Engineering from IIT Delhi.
