Ajay Tyagi gets 18 months extension as SEBI chairman

Ajay Tyagi has been given an 18 month extension as the chairman of markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India, SEBI. His term will continue till February 2022.

Department of Personnel and Training in an order yesterday said, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet



has approved the extension of Ajay Tyagi's term for 18 months with effect from 1st September 2020 to 28th February 2022. Tyagi, a 1984 batch retired IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre was appointed as the SEBI chairman in March 2017 for three years.