New Delhi: IFS officer Nidhi Tewari has been appointed private secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Personnel Ministry order said.
A 2014-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, Tewari is currently serving as deputy secretary in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved Tewari's appointment as private secretary on a co-terminus basis, said the order dated March 29.
Tewari was previously Under Secretary at Disarmament and International Security Affairs Division at the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
The News18 reported that Tewari, who had secured the 96 th rank in the Civil Services Examination in 2013, hails from Mehmurganj in Varanasi, PM Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency since 2014.
PTI with inputs