New Delhi, (Aryavarth) Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir has picked top IRTS officer Ranjan P Thakur to help J&K’s industrial outreach.
It is learnt that some weeks back, Sinha had asked Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to help locate highly-rated officers to assist him.
Thakur is a highly rated railways officer (IRTS, 1990 batch) and has been DRM Danapur; PS to then minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni; ADG Doordarshan (DTH); and Brand Head Shatabdi Express.
Thakur is an alumnus of St Stephen’s, IIFT and IIM Indore. Until this week before moving to J&K, Thakur was Executive Director (Fuel Transportation) NTPC.