RAJEEV TOPNO

June 8, 2020

In yet another high profile exit from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), PM Modi’s Private Secretary Rajeev Topno, a 1996 batch IAS from Gujarat cadre, has been appointed as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of the World Bank in Washington DC.

About:

  • Topno has been the Prime Minister’s private secretary since 2014.

  • The prime minister, according to convention, has two private secretaries. One of them is an IAS officer, the second is an Indian Foreign Service officer.

  • Another officer who served in the PMO as Joint Secretary, Brajendra Navnit, a 1999 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer, has been sent to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India (PRI). He will be based in Geneva.

Source : The Hindu

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