NEW DELHI: Senior IAS Officer, Govind Mohan has been appointed as Home Secretary.

Mohan, a 1989 batch IAS Officer of the Sikkim cadre, has been serving as Secretary, Ministry of Culture. 

Mohan has been appointed as an Officer on Special Duty in the Ministry of Home Affairs with immediate effect and will take over from the current Home Secretary, Ajay Kumar Bhalla, when his term ends on August 22, 2024.

Bhalla, a 1984-batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, was appointed the Union Home Secretary in August 2019 and remained in the post for nearly half a decade.