Current Context : The Centre government appointed Govind Mohan as the next Union home secretary.

• Mohan, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, is a 1989-batch Indian Administrative Service official of Sikkim cadre, had served as joint secretary and additional secretary in the Union Home Ministry before being appointed as secretary in the Ministry of Culture in October 2021.
• He will take over as Home Secretary on the completion of the tenure of 1984-batch IAS official Ajay Kumar Bhalla on August 22.