New Delhi, July 24 -- The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Thursday appointed IAS officer Naresh Pal Gangwar as the Secretary of the Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education, according to an official government notification.

The move marks a major bureaucratic shuffle amid the ongoing NEET-UG paper leak protests and demands for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, news agency ANI reported.

Gangwar's predecessor, Vineet Joshi, a 1992-batch officer, has now been transferred as Secretary in the Department of Panchayati Raj.

According to his profile on worldbank.org, Gangwar is a 1994-batch Rajasthan cadre officer who served as Secretary of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dair...