Subhash Chandra Garg assumes office as DEA Secretary

NEW DELHI(INDIA):A 1983 batch Rajasthan cadre IAS officer Subhash Chandra Garg today assumed office as the new Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance.nnGarg was Executive Director, World Bank, Washington D.C. in his immediate preceding posting.nnHe has widespread administrative experience in more than 30 years of service during which he held various important assignments including the Administrative postings in his home State of Rajasthan.nnGarg has also worked in the Central Government in various capacities. He was posted as Director, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance from May, 2000 to September, 2003. Later he took over as Joint Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance and continued to hold that position till May, 2005.nnHe has also worked in the Cabinet Secretariat where he held the position of Joint Secretary/Additional Secretary from February, 2012 to December, 2013.nn