Uday Kumar Verma took over as the Secretary in the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Varma succeeds Raghu Menon, who retired last month.

Prior to this appointment, Varma was serving as Secretary in the Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

A 1976-batch IAS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre, Varma had earlier served the I&B Ministry as Additional secretary and special secretary.