Bhubaneswar: Bijay Nayak, a former bureaucrat from Odisha, has been appointed as the Additional Secretary (Press) to President Droupadi Murmu.
Nayak is now posted as Officer on Special Duty, Odia University, which is coming up at Sakhigopal in Puri. He was Director of Culture, Odisha government, before his retirement.
He was the Private Secretary to Droupadi when she was Minister of Commerce & Transport and Fisheries & Animal Resources Development from 2000 to 2002.
Nayak is also a reputed literary figure in Odisha. He has been the editor of the literary magazine ‘Kahani’ for the last 20 years.
A popular student leader during his college days, he was president of Bhadrak College Students’ Union and Utkal University Students’ Union.
