New Delhi (10.05.2025): Nidhi Chhibber (IAS: 1994: CG), Additional Secretary, NITI Aayog, has been appointed as Director General, Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), NITI Aayog in the rank and pay of Secretary to the Government of India. Her appointment has been made by temporarily upgrading the post as a measure personal to the officer and by keeping the extant recruitment guidelines of the post in abeyance. Recently she was empanelled for holding Secretary-rank post in Govt of Indian and later she was appointed as Officer on Special Duty, Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) which now stands cancelled. It is understood that the deck is now clear for another IAS officer to become Secretary, MoFPI vice Subrata Gupta (IAS: 1990: WB) who is retiring this month end.
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