Sanjay Kothari to be the new Chief Vigilance Officer

Sanjay Kothari, currently serving as the secretary to the President of India, will be the new Chief Vigilance Commissioner. Kothari, a 1978-batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre, retired in June 2106 as a DoPT secretary. He was in November 2016 appointed as the chief of the government's head-hunter the PESB. His appointment was approved in a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday evening.