Anant Kumar Singh, who is currently working as a Petroleum and Natural Gas Additional Secretary, will be the new Textile Secretary, Ministry of Textiles (MoT), Government of India. He will replace Rashmi Verma, who has now been appointed as Tourism Secretary. She spent almost 17 months in MoT. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) announced top-level bureaucratic reshuffle in which many changes across the ministries have taken place.
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Anant, a 1984-batch Uttar Pradesh Cadre IAS officer, has Bachelor as well as Master’s Degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur along with LLB Degree from Lucknow University. He has also worked as a Government Director at Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd., Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and been a part time Government Nominee Director of GAIL (India) Limited as well.
Coming months will keep Anant very much involved in his new role as MoT is geared up to make its upcoming mega event Textiles India 2017 a successful affair, scheduled from June 30 to July 2. National Textile Policy is also in process and the industry has high hopes from the Ministry.
