Raghu Menon likely to take charge as I&B secretary on June 1

New Delhi: The soon to be vacant post of secretary, information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry seems to have found a suitor in Raghu Menon, former CMD Air India and ex special secretary, civil aviation who, according to official sources is all set to join on June 1. Menon, a 1974 batch IAS of Nagaland cadre would succeed the present secretary Sushma Singh who retires on the last day of this month. For Menon, I&B is not an unfamiliar territory as he has earlier served three stints in the I&B ministry . For the first time in 1993-94 followed by the second stint in the capacity of joint secretary between 1994-1999 and finally as an additional secy in 2006.
The new I&B secretary would have his hands full with scores of unresolved issues waiting for him in the ministry.The issue of third round of FM radio expansion, wherein over 700 FM station licences in 210 cities and towns (majority of which lying in tier II and tier III towns) are to auctioned needs to sorted out.
22/05/09 Soma Das/Financial Express

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