P Krishnamurthy appointed private secretary to defence minister

NEW DELHI: IAS officer P Krishnamurthy was appointed as private secretary to defence minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday.

Krishnamurthy, a 1997 batch IAS officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union territories cadre, is presently working as resident commissioner at Goa Sadan and state's finance secretary.

He has been appointed for a five-year period or on co-terminus basis with the minister's tenure, an order issued by the department of personnel and training said. He has also worked as secretary to Parrikar when the latter was Goa chief minister. Senior Goa bureaucrats Parimal Rai and Pawan Kumar Sain are likely to be posted in the defence ministry, sources said. The three were the main officers in the Parrikar administration in Goa.