After transfer, S C Garg seeks voluntary retirement from government

Move comes a day after Garg was transferred from the finance ministry to the power ministry; Atanu Chakraborty had been named as the new economic affairs secretary

A day after being transferred to the power ministry in a sudden bureaucratic rejig, former finance secretary Subash Chandra Garg is reported to have sought a voluntary retirement from government service.

Garg, who as finance secretary had been at the forefront of the Narendra Modi government’s efforts to get a larger share of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) reserves, had been moved from the finance ministry to the power ministry in a sudden move on Wednesday. Atanu Chakraborty, a 1985-batch Gujarat-cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, had been named to replace Garg.