The Ministry of Finance is a ministry within the Government of India concerned with the economy of India,serving as the Treasury of India. In particular,it concerns itself with taxation,financial legislation,financial institutions,capital markets,currency regulation,banking service,centre and state finances,and the Union Budget.
Vinod Rai is a former IAS officer who served as the 11th Comptroller and Auditor General of India. He assumed office on 7 January 2008 till 22 May 2013. He is the current chairman of UN Panel of External Auditors and Honorary Advisor to the Indian Railways and a member of the Railway Kaya Kalp Council.
Deepak Parekh is an Indian businessman and the former chairman of Housing Development Finance Corporation,India's leading housing private development finance institution. It is based in Mumbai.
Infrastructure Leasing &Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) is an Indian state-funded infrastructure development and finance company. It was created by public sector banks and insurance companies.
The Directorate General of Hydrocarbon (DGH) is the Indian governmental regulatory body under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Sanjiv N. Sahai is an Indian civil servant of the Indian Administrative Service,who served as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Power from 1 November 2019 until 31 January 2021.
Nripendra Misra is an Indian bureaucrat and civil servant. An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1967 batch from the Uttar Pradesh cadre,he served as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India,Narendra Modi from 2014 to 2019. He earlier served as the chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India,as the Telecom Secretary of India and the Fertilizers Secretary of India. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2021. His son Saket Misra is a nominated Member of Legislative Council in Government of Uttar Pradesh since April 2023.
T.V.S.N. Prasad is an Indian Administrative Service officer,currently serving as the Chief Secretary of Government of Haryana. He earlier served as the State's Finance,Revenue and Treasury Secretary. He has several publications to his credit on economic issues related to monetary and fiscal policies. He completed his PhD in Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology,Delhi. He was an Edward S. Mason Fellow in Public Policy and Management and a John Kenneth Galbraith Scholar in Infrastructure Economics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He later served as Lead Infrastructure Coordinator at the World Bank for several years,crafting its policies on power,oil and gas sectors,national economic policies,investments,and infrastructure expansion. He worked in the Government of India as Mission Director of National Mission of Clean Ganga,and later as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Public Sector Undertakings (PSU) in India are government-owned entities in which at least 51% of stake is under the ownership of the Government of India or state governments.These type of firms can also be a joint venture of multiple PSUs. These entities perform commercial functions on behalf of the government. Depending on the level of government ownership,PSUs are officially classified into two categories:Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs),owned by the central government or other CPSUs;and State Public Sector Undertakings (SPSUs),owned by state governments. CPSU and SPSU is further classified into Strategic Sector and Non-Strategic Sector. Depending on their financial performance and progress,CPSUs are granted the status of Maharatna,Navaratna,and Miniratna.
Arvind Mayaram is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of 1978 batch belonging to Rajasthan cadre. He was Finance Secretary,Ministry of Finance of Government of India.
Rajiv Mehrishi is the former 13th Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG) and Vice Chairman of the United Nations Panel of External Auditors. He is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1978 batch belonging to the Rajasthan cadre.
Hasmukh Adhia,IAS is an Indian banker and a retired civil servant. He is one of the key persons behind the architecture and roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax &Demonetization scheme announced in 2016. He is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1981 Gujarat cadre batch who served as Finance Secretary and Revenue Secretary of State. He previously served in several capacities for the Indian and Gujarat governments,including as Financial Services Secretary. He is the present Chairman of the boards of State public sector undertakings Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) (GACL) and Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd(GMDC),GIFT City,standing committee of Pandit Deendayal Energy University,Gandhinagar and former Non-Executive Chairman of Bank of Baroda.A week after the government nominated him chairman of state-owned Bank of Baroda where he served till 29 February 2024,he was appointed as the Chancellor of Central University of Gujarat. Also,he serves as Chief Advisor to Gujarat Chief Minister in CMO from 2022 onwards.
K. Padmanabhaiah is a retired Indian civil servant and a former Home Secretary of India. He is the chairman of the Court of Governors of the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI),and has headed many government committees such as the Committee on Police Reforms (2000),the Committee on Reorganization of the Services Selection Board,and the committee to Review the working of National Institute of Urban Management. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan,in 2008,for his contributions to Indian civil service.
Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar is a retired 1983 batch IAS officer belonging to Uttar Pradesh cadre.
D. Jagatheesa Pandian is an Indian civil servant from Nagercoil. He is the current Vice President and chief investment officer of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. He previously served as IAS officer of Gujarat cadre and Chief Secretary of Gujarat.
Shaktikanta Das is serving as the current &25th governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He was earlier a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission and India's Sherpa to the G20. Das is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tamil Nadu cadre.
Subhash Chandra Garg is a 1983 batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre. He served as Economic Affairs Secretary and Finance Secretary of India. He has also served as an executive director in the World Bank.
The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) is a group of social and economic infrastructure projects in India over a period of five years with an initial sanctioned amount of ₹102 lakh crore (equivalent to ₹120 trillion or US$1.4 trillion in 2023). The pipeline was first made public by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi during his 2019 Independence Day speech.
Rajesh Khullar is a high-ranking Indian official and Chief Principal Secretary to Chief Minister,Haryana. Previously,he served on the board of the World Bank Group as India,Bangladesh,Bhutan,and Sri Lanka's representative. Khullar belongs to the IAS,India’s elite civil service,tasked with commanding policy,governance,and administration nationwide.
Guruprasad Mohapatra was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) who had held several important positions in the Gujarat State Govt and also in the Central Govt of India. At the time of his demise in June 2021 due to COVID-19 he was holding the position of the Secretary of Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) in Govt of India.
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