NEW DELHI, Apr 1:
Senior Indian Information Service officer Sheyphali B Sharan on Monday assumed charge as the Principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau and the spokesperson of the Government.
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A 1990-batch officer, Sharan is the fifth woman officer to head the PIB after Neelam Kapur, Deepak Sandhu, Shakuntala Mahawal and N J Krishna.
Sharan succeeds Manish Desai, who superannuated as Principal Director General of PIB. Sharan had earlier served as the spokesperson of the Election Commission and the Finance Ministry. (PTI)
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