NEW DELHI: Senior Indian Postal Service officer Anju Nigam has been appointed Joint Secretary in the Information and Broadcasting ministry.

Nigam is a 1988 officer and will take charge for a period of five years or until further orders (whichever is earlier) from the date she assumes charge.

She takes the place of Indian Administrative Service officer Puneet Kansal who was in charge various matters such as e-auctions and other issues in Prasar Bharati, Kansal was from the Sikkim cadre in the 1996 batch.