MUMBAI: Siddharth Sharma, who used to be with the President’s Secretariat, has a new role. On June 17, he's going to take over as the chief sustainability officer of the $110-billion Tata workforce. A profession civil servant for more than two decades, the 50-year-old served in more than a few capacities in the finance ministry, exterior affairs and concrete development sooner than moving to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Government laws mandate that civil servants should stay away from jobs in the personal sector for at least a 12 months after resignation or retirement. However, the government can waive this one-year cooling off length love it had performed with regards to S Jaishankar, who was allowed to sign up for the Tata Group in April 2018 inside of months of his retirement as India’s overseas secretary. No waiver, although, was given to former SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya.
Sharma has completed the one-year cooling off length sooner than taking over the assignment with India’s greatest personal sector undertaking. He will take over the role from S Padmanabhan at Tata Sons, the conserving corporate of the airline-to-aviation conglomerate.
Padmanabhan will, then again, continue to head other functions — trade excellence and ethics — at the workforce.
Sharma’s appointment comes soon after the go out of Jaishankar, who is now India’s exterior affairs minister.
The Tata workforce has all the time snapped up senior civil servants as a part of its HR diversification efforts. It had up to now hired former diplomat Ronen Sen as a director. Vijay Singh, ex-defence secretary, serves as a trustee of Tata Trusts, the controlling shareholder of Tata Sons.
Government laws mandate that civil servants should stay away from jobs in the personal sector for at least a 12 months after resignation or retirement. However, the government can waive this one-year cooling off length love it had performed with regards to S Jaishankar, who was allowed to sign up for the Tata Group in April 2018 inside of months of his retirement as India’s overseas secretary. No waiver, although, was given to former SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya.
Sharma has completed the one-year cooling off length sooner than taking over the assignment with India’s greatest personal sector undertaking. He will take over the role from S Padmanabhan at Tata Sons, the conserving corporate of the airline-to-aviation conglomerate.
Padmanabhan will, then again, continue to head other functions — trade excellence and ethics — at the workforce.
Sharma’s appointment comes soon after the go out of Jaishankar, who is now India’s exterior affairs minister.
The Tata workforce has all the time snapped up senior civil servants as a part of its HR diversification efforts. It had up to now hired former diplomat Ronen Sen as a director. Vijay Singh, ex-defence secretary, serves as a trustee of Tata Trusts, the controlling shareholder of Tata Sons.
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