Bhubaneswar: Senior IIS officer Rajinder Chaudhry assumed charge as Additional Director General (ADG) of Press Information Bureau (PIB), Odisha region, on Monday.
The 1997-batch officer will head the PIB Bhubaneswar and Regional Outreach Bureau (ROB), Bhubaneswar, and as Additional Press Registrar of the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI).
Senior officials and staff members of PIB Bhubaneswar welcomed Choudhry who discussed various day-to-day matters with them.
Prior to his current engagement, Chaudhry was the Chief Media in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He has also worked in different capacities in various departments of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, including Director, Publication Division and Director, PIB New Delhi.
In the capacity of Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, he had spearheaded the now popular campaign ‘Jago Grahak Jago’ on consumer awareness.
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