chandigarh the appointments committee of the union cabinet has approved the suggestion of the ministry of home affairs mha to appoint 2002 batch punjab cadre ias officer vijay namdeorao zade as the new finance secretary of the ut administration the committee approved the intercadre deputation of zade for three yearsthe exercise to appoint a new officer was initiated as the threeyear deputation period of former finance secretary a k sinha ended in august 2020the punjab government last year had forwarded names of three ias officers to the administration to be consideredthe three officers were 2000 batch ias officer kumar rahul 2002 batch ias officer vijay namdeorao zade and 2004 batch ias officer arun sekhriwhile kumar was the seniormost and the frontrunner for the post ut administrator v p singh badnore in august last year had forwarded zades name to the mha finance secretary is the third most important post in the administration after ut adviser and home secretary the post is reserved for punjab cadre ias officers the officer looks after the entire engineering department and issues related to urban planning besides he also looks after several other departments allocated by the administrator from time to time3month extension soughtthe ut administration had recently sought threemonth extension for home secretary arun gupta and municipal commissioner k k yadavthe threeyear tenure of both the officers ends this monthut administrator vp singh badnore had urged the ministry of home affairs to grant extension in services to gupta a haryana cadre ias officer of 1992 batch and yadav a punjab cadre ias officer of 2003 batchin march the administration had recommended names of nitin kumar yadav a 2000 batch ias officer of haryana cadre for home secretary post and anindita mitra a 2007 batch ias officer of punjab cadre for chandigarh mc commissioner post to the ministry of home affairs