AK Bhalla leaving DGFT, will be new Power Secretary
The Dollar Business Bureau Ajay Kumar Bhalla, the Director General of Foreign Trade will be leaving the charge of Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on June 30. Bhalla, a 1984 batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre who earlier served as the Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce, will be joining as the new Power Secretary. He will take over the new charge from Power Secretary P K Pujari, who is retiring on June 30. “The new name for the post of DGFT has not yet been decided. It will be decided within a day or two,” sources in DGFT office told The Dollar Business. Bhalla, who had taken the charge in October 2016, is the fourth DGFT to leave the post ...
India, Bangladesh agree private sector partnership in power sector
The Dollar Business Bureau India and Bangladesh have agreed for exchange of power through private sector cooperation, alongside continuing the existing government-level cooperation in the power sector. The power secretaries of India and Bangladesh, on Friday, concluded a two-day meeting in Dhaka, where they discussed the ways for exploring cooperation in the power sector between India and Bangladesh. According to an official release, a high-level delegation led by P K Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of India, was in Dhaka to attend a meeting of the Joint Steering Committee on the Power Sector on Thursday with his Bangladeshi counterpart, Monowar Islam, Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. This is the 9th meeting ...