New Delhi: Richa Sharma, the additional secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, has been appointed as the additional secretary of the Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, replacing Subodh Kumar Singh.
Richa Sharma belongs to the 1994 batch of the Chhattisgarh cadre of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). On the other hand, Subodh Kumar Singh (1997 batch) IAS officer of Chhatisgarh cadre, has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of the National Testing Agency (NTA) following a bureaucratic reshuffle by the Centre.
Richa Sharma was entrusted with the command of the Food Department by the Chhattisgarh government in 2015. She had applied for Central Services in 2018. In 2019, the state government relieved Sharma for deputation in the Central Government.
