Shri Shashikant Das Appointed as New Governor of RBI

Shri Shashikant Das Appointed as New Governor of RBI

New Delhi: Government of India has appointed to Shri Shashikant Das as the new Governor of the country Tuesday on 11th December 2018. He is 25th RBI Chief.
 
Shaktikanta Das (born 26 February 1957) is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tamil Nadu cadre. Prior to this, he served in various capacities for Indian and Tamil Nadu governments, including as Economic Affairs Secretary of India, Revenue Secretary of India, Fertilizers Secretary of India.
 
Das was schooled at the Demonstration Multipurpose School, Bhubaneswar, and then obtained bachelor's (BA) and master's degrees (MA) in history from the St. Stephen's College at the University of Delhi. He did advanced financial management course from IIM Bangalore and development banking and institutional credit from the NIBM. He also got in-service professional training in financial management in Institute Public Enterprises. He did diploma in basic project management from Administrative Staff College of India and mid-career level training from IIM Calcutta along with two programme implementation course from Himachal Pradesh Institute of Public Administration and Institute of Management in Government.

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