Sheyphali Sharan takes charge as Principal Director General of Press Information Bureau
Sheyphali B Sharan has today assumed charge as the Principal Director
General, Press Information Bureau upon superannuation of Manish Desai
yesterday. Sharan is an officer of the 1990 batch of Indian Information
Service.
During an illustrious career spanning over three decades, she has held
cadre portfolios of largely looking after media publicity work as Press
Information Bureau officer for Ministries such as Finance, Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. She has also
served as the Spokesperson for Election Commission of India.
In addition, she has worked on Central Staffing Scheme Deputations as
Director in Ministry of Health (Department of Traditional Systems of
Medicine/AYUSH (2002-2007)) and Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic
Affairs 2013-2017) besides working on cadre post of OSD (Information Policy at
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 2000-2002) as also as Director
Administration and Finance at LSTV, Lok Sabha Secretariat in 2007-2008.
Upon assumption of charge, Sharan was welcomed by senior officials of
Press Information Bureau.