About Ajay Narayan Jha
Born 1959. Ajay Narayan Jha is an Indian civil servant.
Ajay Narayan Jha (born 15 January 1959; IAST: ) is a 1982 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Manipur cadre. He was the Finance Secretary of India for three months. He was appointed as the member of Fifteenth Finance Commission of India in place of Shaktikanta Das and served there till 26 November 2023. Thereafter, he was appointed as a member of Sixteenth Finance Commission on 1 January 2024 and served their till 15 April 2025.
Education Jha has BA (Honours) and MA in history from St. Stephen's College at University of Delhi, a postgraduate degree in executive development from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, he assumed the office of secretary on 1 May 2016, succeeding Ashok Lavasa, he was made officer on special duty (OSD), in the rank of secretary,
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Indian civil servant
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Ajay Narayan Jha was born on 15 January 1959 in Bihar.
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