PIB PR team in MHA rejigged

The Press Information Bureau has rejigged its team looking after public relations outreach of the Home Ministry headed by Amit Shah.

Nitin D Wakankar will now lead the team in place of Vasudha Gupta, who has been shifted to PIB fact-check team, another important assignment in the government.

The whole MHA team has been shifted out and Rajkumar appointed the ADG, Praveen Kavi as Deputy Director of the media wing, and Amandeep Yadav will be Assistant Director. A total of eight officers have been reshuffled.

Wakankar is DG-level officer of the 1989 batch who has been CBI spokesperson and incharge of Bureau of Outreach and Communications in the PIB.

( With inputs from IANS )