New Delhi, April 1, 2024: Sheyphali B Sharan today assumed charge as the Principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau (PIB).
Sharan is an officer of the 1990 batch of Indian Information Service, who assumed charges upon superannuation of Manish Desai yesterday.
During an illustrious career spanning over three decades, she has held cadre portfolios of largely looking after media publicity work as PIB officer for Ministries such as Finance, Health and Family Welfare, Information and Broadcasting.
Sharan has also served as the Spokesperson for Election Commission of India.
In addition, she has worked on Central Staffing Scheme Deputations as Director in Ministry of Health (Department of Traditional Systems of Medicine/AYUSH (2002-2007)) and Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs 2013-2017) besides working on cadre post of OSD (Information Policy at Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 2000-2002) as also as Director Administration and Finance at LSTV, Lok Sabha Secretariat in 2007-2008.
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