Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba gets one-year extension

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has been given one-year extension in service, a notification from the Department of Personnel and Training said that the Appointments Commitee of the Cabinet has approved extension in service to Rajiv Gauba, a Jharkhand cadre 1982 batch IAS officer, as Cabinet Secretary for a further period of one year beyond August 30, 2021. Gauba was in 2019 appointed to the country’s top bureaucratic post for two years.

Gauba was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary on August 30, 2019 with a tenure of two years. Prior to that, Gauba had served as the Union Home Secretary from August 30, 2017. Before that, he had served as the Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development. He had served in Jharkhand as the Chief Secretary for 15 months before returning to serve in the central government in 2016. Gauba is said to be the key architect of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act under which Jammu and Kashmir was divided into two Union territories following the abrogation of the special status given to the erstwhile state under Article 370 of the Constitution.