Archana Nigam will take over as the next Controller General of Accounts in the Department of Expenditure under the Ministry of Finance on January 1, 2017.

An Officer of the 1981 batch of the Indian Civil Accounts Service, Nigam has worked in various capacities in a number of ministries in the last 35 years.

A Graduate in Psychology (Hons.) from Lady Shri Ram College, Nigam is also a Law Graduate from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi and an MBA (Finance) from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), University of Mumbai, an official statement said.

She has also to her credit an M.Phil in Public Administration, it added.

In her last posting before taking over as CGA, Nigam has been involved in the critical task of setting up of the Accounting Framework for the GST regime to be launched by Government in the next Financial Year. #casansaar (PTI)