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New Delhi:After the oath taking ceremony of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government Saturday,and allotment of cabinet portfolios, the action will shift to the appointments to be made to the half-a-dozen top bureaucratic positionsthat will fall vacant in the next two to four months...
These include the three top posts in the government cabinet secretary, home secretary and foreign secretary that are due to be vacant between August and October 2024..
Government sources indicated there is a strong likelihood that the incumbent principal secretary to the Prime Minister, P.K. Mishra, might not continue for a third term in the Prime Ministers Office (PMO)..
Besides the top three posts, government sources said P.K. Mishra, principal secretary to PM Narendra Modi, is unlikely to continue in the third term of the Modi government..
Mishra, a 1972 Gujarat cadre officer had moved to the PMO as additional principal secretary in 2014 after Modi took over as PM.Prior to that, he has worked as principal secretary to Modi, when he was the Gujarat chief minister..
