NEW DELHI: Senior Indian Administrative Officer Ali Raza Rizvi, a 1988 batch officer from the Himachal Pradesh cadre, has been transferred as the additional secretary and financial advisor to the information and broadcasting ministry.

Rizvi had, in the third week of July this year, been asked to join as the chairman and managing director of the National Mineral Development Corporation at the rank of additional secretary, which stands cancelled, now. He had been the joint secretary in the commerce ministry till that order came in, and was at present was the additional secretary in the same ministry.

Prior to joining the commerce ministry, he had been the joint secretary in the health ministry.