The government is understood to have zeroed in on B M Singh to take over as the next chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes in the Finance Ministry. The current chairman Indira Bhargava is retiring on May 31.
Singh, currently a CBDT Member in charge of Personnel & Administration, will have a chairman tenure of five months only as he is retiring on October 31 this year. Bhargava also had a short tenure of five months as chairperson of CBDT. Singh is a 1970 batch Indian Revenue Service officer.
In other changes, petroleum secretary M S Srinivasan is tipped to be the front runner for the post of revenue secretary following incumbent K M Chandrasekhar being named as the next Cabinet Secretary. Srinivasan is a Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer of the 1971 batch.
Chandrasekhar, a 1970 Kerala cadre Indian Administrative Services officer, served as Revenue Secretary since October 2004 till now.
Official sources said Chandrasekhar will be appointed as Officer on Special Duty in the Cabinet Secretariat for a month from May 21 before succeeding current Cabinet Secretary B K Chaturvedi.
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