J.S. Deepak will be new telecom secretary

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New Delhi, Jan 29  J.S. Deepak has been appointed the secretary of the Department of Telecommunications, an official statement said here on Friday.

Deepak is currently the secretary of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology.

The decision was approved by the appointments committee of the union Cabinet.

Deepak’s current department and the one he will now join both belong to the union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

He will succeed Rakesh Garg, who has been moved as the secretary of the minority affairs ministry.