Amjad Tak IAS Takes Charge as Finance Secretary in Delhi Government

Amjad Tak, a 2005-batch IAS officer of the AGMUT cadre, has been appointed Secretary-Finance in the Government of NCT of Delhi, according to an order issued this week. He moves into the post from his previous assignment as Commissioner in the Education Department of Arunachal Pradesh, a position he had held since March 2023.

The Finance Department is one of the more consequential secretary-level postings within the Delhi government, controlling the budget process, expenditure sanctions and financial oversight for every other department in the Union Territory administration. An officer taking over this desk effectively becomes a gatekeeper for how Delhi's departments spend through the rest of the financial year.

Tak's career has moved across an unusually wide spread of sectors for an AGMUT officer. He began as Deputy Collector in North Goa, handling sub-divisional revenue work, before shifting to Arunachal Pradesh as Deputy Commissioner of West Siang, where he managed land revenue and district development in one of the state's more remote terrains. He later served as Deputy Commissioner with the Municipal Corporation in Delhi, giving him early exposure to metropolitan civic administration, and went on to hold the Special Secretary charge in Arunachal Pradesh's Agriculture Department, followed by a senior posting in Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

His most recent stretch before this appointment combined an e-governance assignment — Secretary, Information Technology Department, GNCTD, between 2019 and 2022 — with a period as Secretary (E-Governance) in Mizoram's Information Technology and Communication Department, and later a term as Resident Commissioner for Arunachal Pradesh in New Delhi, representing the state government's interests with the Union ministries.

Since 2005, AGMUT officers have historically rotated between the Union Territories and the North-Eastern states that make up the cadre, and Tak's file reflects that pattern closely — Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Delhi all feature in his postings over two decades. The Finance Secretary's chair, however, is a step up in profile from his previous sector-specific charges, placing him at the centre of the Delhi government's day-to-day fiscal management rather than a single department's policy execution.

The appointment was notified as Tak joining GNCTD, with the posting taking effect immediately.