New Delhi, Mar 2 (PTI) Senior bureaucrat Subhas Chandra Lal Das was on Thursday given two years extension as director general of hydrocarbons under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, a personnel ministry order said.

Lal, a 1992-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre, was appointed on the post in 2019.

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The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved extension in Das' tenure for a period of two years beyond 25.03.2023 or until further orders, it said.

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