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Nidhi Khare, a 1992 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Jharkhand cadre, is currently the Secretary of the Department of Land Resources.
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has come up with draft norms for "Online Consumer Reviews" and circulated it among stakeholders. The draft QCO specifies that all organisations (termed as review administrator) managing and publishing online consumer reviews shall comply with the norms. They must ensure that only "genuine" reviews get published and they won't publish any "fake or false" consumer reviews online. (Image source: News18 Hindi)
Senior bureaucrat Nidhi Khare was on Monday named the new consumer affairs secretary to succeed incumbent Rohit Kumar Singh who is due to retire this month-end, according to an official order.
Khare, a 1992 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Jharkhand cadre, is currently the Secretary of the Department of Land Resources, PTI reported.
She has been appointed as the officer on special duty in the Department of Consumer Affairs, according to the order issued by the Personnel Ministry.
The officer will take over as Secretary of the Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution upon superannuation of Rohit Kumar Singh on March 31, it said.
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