Government Retains Top Administrative Team for Another Year

What Happened

The Centre has approved a one-year extension for Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan and Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan. T.V. Somanathan, a 1987-batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, previously served as Finance Secretary and played a major role in public finance reforms and digitisation initiatives. Govind Mohan, a 1989-batch IAS officer of the Sikkim cadre, heads the Ministry of Home Affairs bureaucracy and oversees areas including internal security, border management, and Centre-State coordination.