Textiles Secretary Anant Kumar Singh moves to land resources

NEW DELHI: Textiles Secretary Anant Kumar Singh has been shifted to the land resources department as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle.nnCulture Secretary Raghvendra Singh will be the new textiles secretary, according to an order issued by the personnel ministry.nnArun Goel , currently special secretary, culture ministry, will be the new secretary.nnAnant Singh, a 1984 batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, was appointed secretary, Ministry of Textiles, headed by Smriti Irani, in May last year.nnHe has been appointed secretary, land resources, after the superannuation of Dinesh Singh on 30 June, 2018, the order said.nnAnant Singh had recently said irregularities worth Rs 200 crore were detected in the National Handloom Development Corporation (NHDC), a public sector undertaking under the textiles ministry. The matter has been referred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).nnRaghvendra Singh, a 1983 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre, was appointed culture secretary in November 2017.