New Delhi: Seasoned bureaucrat P K Mishra was on Thursday re-appointed as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a fresh five-year term.
Mishra held this crucial post during the last two tenures of the governments headed by PM Modi.
Mishra’s appointment will be co-terminus with the term of the Prime Minister or until further orders whichever is earlier”, stated an order.
Mishra will be assigned the rank of Cabinet Minister in the Table of Precedence and terms and conditions of his appointment will be notified separately.
Mishra has held various key positions at the Centre and in the Gujarat government.
He served as Additional Principal Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in Modi’s first term as the Prime Minister from 2014 to 2019.
Mishra, a 1972 batch retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Gujarat cadre, was re-appointed to the same post with effect from May 31, 2019, during Modi’s second term.
He was in September 2019 appointed as the principal secretary to the PM. His term was on a co-terminus basis with PM Modi’s tenure.
Mishra had served between 2001 and 2004 as the Principal Secretary to PM Modi when he was the Gujarat Chief Minister.
A veteran bureaucrat, he was the secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture between December 1, 2006 and August 31, 2008.
After his retirement, Mishra was appointed the chairman of the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission for a five-year term.
Meanwhile, the ACC has also approved the reappointment of former Indian Administrative Service officers Amit Khare and Tarun Kapoor as advisers to the PM for two years with effect from June 10, 2024.
Khare, a 1985 batch retired IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre, was in October 2021 appointed as adviser to PM Modi.
Kapoor, a 1987 batch retired IAS officer of the Himachal Pradesh cadre, was named as the adviser in May.
